Spring1992

NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Executive Committee

Vol. 22, No.2 (ISSN 01643983) Spring 1992 Editor: William L. Churchill

Associate Editor: Roberta Jenckes M '87 Sports Editor: C hristopher Brown '90 Staff Writers: Martha A. Davidson, Eli zabeth A. Natale Publicatiom Assistant: Kathleen H. Davidson Plwtographer: Jon Lester

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By Christopher Brown '90 A pool and squash complex are the latest additions to Ferris.

A SONDHEIM SATURDAY 12

By Dana Whalen Critics, performers and faculty gather on campus to assess the works of the Broadway composer.

PERFORMING IN BULGARIA 15

By Judy Dworin '70 Trinity's director of dance and her ensemble are the first U.S. dancers at Sofia's National Theatre.

TRINITY IN PRINTS

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THE SCOT WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA 20

By Richard White M'59 The Earl of Orkney, hero of this alumnus' novel, appears to have preceded Columbus by 100 years.

TRINITY REUNION. 1992

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D EPARTMENTS

Along the Walk Books Sports Applause Area Club Activities Class Notes In Memory

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COVER: judy DuJOrin '70, director ofdance at Trinity, peifonns in "Distant Voices Coming ear" at SC!fia's National Theatre. See page 15 for her firsthand account.

Cover photo by Anguss Moss.

Robert E. Kehoe, Jr. '69

Vice Presidents Alumni Fund

Charles H. McGill III '63

Admissions

E. Macey Russell '80

Area Clubs

Jeffrey H . Seibert '79

Members Thomas D. Casey '80 Ernest M. Haddad '60 Karen A. Jeffers '76 Dorothy McAdoo MacColl '74 Michael B. Masius '63 Jane Melvin Manoon '84 Rhea Jo Pincus '82

A RTICLES

A NEW ERA FOR SWIMMING AND SQUASH

President

David A. Raymond '63 Scott W. Reynolds '63 Pamela W. von Seldeneck '85 Alden R. Gordon '69 Faculry Representative Malcolm F. MacLean IV '92 Sr. Class President

Athletic Advisory Committee Donald J. Viering '42

George P. Lynch, Jr. '61

Nominatiug Committee Robert N . Hunter '52, Chair Wenda Harris Millard '76 Kathleen L. Frederick '7 1 David A. Raymond '63 Karen L. Mapp '77 Stanley A. Twardy, Jr. '73

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Charter TniSiees Francisco L. Borges '74 Thomas S. Johnson '62

RuthJ. Nutt Paul E. Raether '68 路

Raymond E. Joslin '58 George A. Kellner '64 Alfred J. Koeppel '54 Eileen S. Kraus M'65 Worth Loomis Donald L. McLagan '64 Edward A. Momgomery,Jr. '56

William C. Richardson '62 Robert B. Stepro '66 Emily B. Swenson '75 Douglas T. Tansill '61 The Rt. Rev. Arthur E. Walmsley '48 James P. Wrutters III '62

Trustee Ex-Officio Tom Gerery, President

Alumni Trustees Paul A. Cataldo '57 Thomas R. DiBenedetto '71 JoAnne A. Epps '73

Peter T. Kilborn '61 William H. Schweitzer '66 Michael Zoob '58

REPORTER EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Frank M. Child Ill Gerald J. Hansen, Jr. '51 Dirk Kuyk

J. Ronald Spencer '64 Theodore T. Tansi '54 Susan E. Weisselberg '76

BOARD OF FELLOWS Susan Martin Haberlandt '71 Donald K. Jackson '83 Alice M . Simon '83 Wenda Harris Millard '76 Glenn A. Woods '75

Edward H. Yeterian '70 Susan E. Weisselberg '76 Stephen P. Jones '63 Daniel L. Korengold '73

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ALONG THE WALK TRINITY COLLEGE

Annual Giving Gains, Despite Tough Year •••••••••••••••••••• In spite of an adverse economic climate , Trinity's annual giving effort continues to make gains. With a goal of $2.3 million to be reached by June 30, cash received in the Annual Fund as of March 7 stood at $1,397,938, or 61 percent of goal.

"We're pleased to be doing so well in a difficult year and particularly to be eight percent ahead oflast year at this point, " said Director of Annual Giving Constance French. "While the number of donors to date is down, the cash total is up, so our success is due in part to the generosity of donors who've increased their gifts in a challenging year.

Now, in these last few months, we'll continue to work hard on securing increased gifts as well as enhancing participation."

Giving to the Alumni Fund was up

12 percent over last year, with $1,052,196, or 58 percent of the goal reached as of March 7. The Parents' Fund stood at $130,457, or 58 percent of the goal, as of March 7, while the Friends' Fund had surpassed its goal and stood at $43,301. Corporate and foundation giving stood at $171,984, or 73 percent of the goal.

Annual Fund Chairman Robert E. Brickley '67 waxed enthusiastic. "The business of fund raising at Trinity has taken a dramatic tun1 for the better," he said. "Karen Osborne and her wonderful group of young professionals have teamed with a revitalized core of enthusiastic volunteers to make this year's Annual Fund drive one of the most exciting and productive in College history."

Among the Annual Fund volunteers were 232 alumni callers in regional phonathons who generated 1 ,658 pledges totalling $141,973, exceeding their pledge goal by 583 and dollar goal

by $41,973. "We owe our success this year to the enthusiastic and exceptional work ofJeffSeibert '79, national alumni phonathon chair," said Melissa Bronzino '87, assistant director of annual giving and volunteer phonathon coordinator. " He did a fabulous job of Enthusiastic alumni volunteers, including Henry Lindert '65 (inset), staffed a campus phonathon in the Reese Room at Smith Alumni/Faculty House.

recruiting callers, thanking volunteers and motivating callers."

The Annual Fund's student callers were an "energetic, caring and professional" group, according to Assistant Director of Annual Giving Alexandra Ablon. In 16 nights of calling, she said, the students raised $112,660 from alumni, and in five nights of calling parents, raised $3,960 for the Parents' Fund

Scenes from "'night, Mother Week"

Attention, Alumni Considering A Career in Health Professions

Alumni who are planning further study toward a career in the health professions should know of the services ofTrinity's Advisory Committee for the Health Professions. This group, chaired by Dr. Richard Crawford of biology, provides guidance to students and alumni considering careers in medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, optometry, podiatry, nursing, and related areas.

The Committee offers infonnation on the professional education required, the application process involved, the appropriate undergraduate academic preparation, admissions requirements and the necessary standardized tests. While the Committee can't guarantee admission to professional schools, it does counsel students based on their academic performance and experience and the admission standards of the school or the demands of the career field.

"The Committee's services are always available, even after graduation ," Crawford advises. "Currently, we 're helping many alumni, who find using the Committee to be to their advantage.

Sometimes people need the support, information and advocacy of a committee in making decisions and during the application process."

Other members of the Committee are: Rozanne Burt, director of career counseling; Dr. Priscilla Kehoe, associate professor of psychology; and Dr. Ralph Moyer, Scovill Professor of Chemistry.

To contact the Committee, write to Richard Crawford, Department ofBiology, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106, or call him at (203)297-2351.

BY MARTHA DAVIDSON

One week in March was devoted to special events and peiformances centered arou11d ' night, Mother. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Marsha Nomwn was controversial when first peiformed a decade ago, and the drama ignited widespread interest on campus this spring.

Scene One

Three Trinity seniors sit on the Austin Arts Center stage. All three young women are costumed similarly in jeans and dark sweatshirts. All three are quietly intense .

Each holds a script of Marsha Norman's one-act play, 'night, Mother.

They will share the role of the daughter, Jessie, who tells her mother that she plans to kill herself at evening's end.

Christine C. KJotz '92, Nicole M. Moretti '92 and Kathleen M . Powers '92 have had two rehearsals with Chairman of Theater and Dance Arthur B. Feinsod to prepare for this staged reading.

Alongside the students is Anne Pitoniak, the actress who created the role ofThelma, the 'night, Mother mom. She performed in the play's world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in 1982, and later on Broadway. Altogether, Pitoniak has played the role for about six years, and,

always before, with actress Kathy Bates or her understudy.

Calm and focused, the students each take a tum reading stage directions and Jessie's lines. Sad, desperate and funny, the story of a mother and daughter's last evening together unfolds. The younger actresses hold their own against the seasoned professional.

In preparing the undergraduates for their appearance with Pitoniak, Feinsod directed them to take a cool, disciplined approach. He said: "I wanted a good, clear, honest reading.

I didn't want them to show more than they actually felt. If anything, I wanted them to show less. I told them, 'if emotion comes out, fine, but only if you can't resist it.' Anne just took off and got a lot from the students."

During her visit, Pitoniak also taught a master class. Later she said, "I just really had a wonderful time at Trinity. Everything was done with enormous dignity, but was not at all solemn. I have been telling a lot of people in detail about this forwardlooking college - the people seem to be with it. It seems to be a very nurturing and nourishing environment, but not at all coddling."

"She treated us like we were her equals and we were one step away from being her colleagues in the theater," commented Powers, a theater and dance major who plans to pursue a career as a director after graduation.

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Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance M. Joshua Karter directs another version of 'night, Mother. This fully-staged production features Vera Ulick and Galina Borisova, actresses from Nikitsky Gates Theater in Moscow. Before the performance, the two had spent a month in residence on campus, rehearsing and meeting with classes in different departments to discuss the rapidly-changing events in their homeland.

In the staged reading of 'night, Mother at Austin Arts Center, stage actress Anne Pitoniak, right, performed with Christine C. Klotz '92, Nicole M. Moretti '92 and Kathleen M. Powers '92.

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"Directing a show in a foreign language was tricky; I think it turned out beautifully," Karter said afterward.

"The actresses had a wonderful time here. I was impressed by their level of concentration and dedication to the project throughout their entire residency." A week later, Karter packed up the 'night, Mother set and headed for Moscow to direct Borisova and Ulick in the Russian premiere at Nikitsky Gates Theater.

Before leaving, Karter was optimistic that 'night, Mother would go over welL "I would have preferred bringing over a cheery play at this particular time, but I chose this one because it communicates well across cultures," he explained. " In order to understand it, you don't have

to have a specific knowledge of American culture or American politics or American public figures."

Professor of Sociology Michael P. Sacks commented during a panel discussion that he thought the Russian audiences would be very interested in observing jessie's impending suicide.

"Only in 1989 did newspapers there reveal the number of suicides in Russia. It's 'new' to them," he explained.

He added that people may have difficulty understanding why no other characters step forward and try to prevent Jessie's death. "There's more sense of communi ty responsibility," Sacks said, "because of the corporate conception of guilt in Russian orthodoxy and the ideology of socialism."

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It's early evening. A Thursday afternoon perfonnance of 'night, Mother at the Austin Arts Center has just ended.

Up the hill at Mather Hall student dining room, they're running out of the chicken special.

Faculty, staff and others from the Hartford community arrive for a dinner discussion of 'night, Mother. Clutching their guest meal tickets, they wend their way through the cafeteria and carry trays of food into a small back room.

There they j oin up with students, cran1.med close at the long tables.

The conversation criss-crosses back and forth through a maze of ideas - on mother-daughter relationships, suicide and self-determination, the differences between cultures and between the sexes, honesty and pretense. The decibel level rises. The talkers linger while the kitchen staff cleans up.

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A panel of fac ulty from theater and dance, women's studies, Russian studies, English, sociology and psychology share their thoughts abo ut the play from the vantage points of their particular disciplines ... The film version starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek is shown twice ... Nationallyknown psychologist Carol Gilligan,

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author of In a Different Voice and professor of education at Harvard University, gives a talk on female psychological development and mother-daughter relationships.

Members of Moscow's Nikitsky Gates Theater performed 'night Mother in Russian at the Austin Arts Center. Vera Ulick, left, portrayed Thelma, the mother; Galina Borisova played Jessie, the daughter; Assistant Professor ofTheater M. Joshua Karter directed .

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Precisely one week after the first 'night, Mother event started, the last one begins. Writer and psychotherapist Carole lone leads a workshop called "Finding the Mother Within."

In Rittenberg Lounge, strangers and acquaintances sit side by side in a circle on the floor. lone lights a cedar and sage smudge stick like ones used in purification rituals by Native Americans; the pungent smell drifts through the dimly-lighted room. The participants, who are mainly women, talk to each other about their mothers, do pantomime about the hidden messages passed on to them by their mothers, and meditate.

Because 'night, Mother is a dark play that raises questions but ends without giving you answers, lone's workshop brought a welcome sense of spirituality and healing, said Professor of Theater and Dance Judy Dworin '70.

"I thought it was a wonderful coalition of people from different departments working on the week's events, and I think we had a very good turnout of students. The involvement of every campus student women's organization and the Women's Center was a step toward turning around that chilly climate that was discussed in (Professor ofSociology) Noreen Channel's recent survey of the alumnae," said Diane Martell, coordinator of the Women's Center. "The "night, Mother Week' made a very strong sense of community among the women on campus." ''I'm very proud to be part of a college that would put aside a week to look at a play of such critical acclaim

from all these different perspectives to see people from sociology and psychology and Russian studies and economics talking and arguing was thrilling. I've never seen such energy in my classes; students almost came to blows!" Feinsod said. "The energy around this play started to infiltrate everywhere. My sense is that the 'night, Mother program will prove to be a model for similar programs here; maybe next semester there will be one centered around a person or an event.

Hopefully, it'll have the same ripple effect through the campus.

"1 think " night, Mother Week' lit a spark," he said.

Presented by the theater and dance department, the 'night, Mother program was made possible in part through the generous support ofJoel M . Goldfrank '69, president of Allied Founders Corporation in New York. "We are deeply grateful for the support of joel Goldfrank," Feinsod said. "His interest

in this program came out of a desire to do something special. Throughout the planning process, Joel played an active role and his financial support allowed the College to enhance "night, Mother Week."'

"I am interested in supporting cross-departmental programs/events within the humanities which serve as catalysts for energetic inquiry and discussion among both students and faculty and with each other," said Goldfrank, who earned his B.A. degree in English. "It is also my hope that through the application of quality material to issues of current relevance, such programs will enhance the College's recognition among alumni(ae), acadenuc colleagues of the faculty teaching elsewhere, and prospective student applicants."

The program's co-sponsors were the Austin Arts Center, the Coordinating Committee, the departments ofEnglish, modern languages and psychology, women's studies, the Endowment for Asian and Eastern European Studies, the Goodwin Fund for Theater and Dance, and the Women's Center. lone's workshop was sponsored by the Women's Center, the theater and dance department, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Delta Delta, Trinity College Black Women's Organization, Trinity Women's Organization and the Society for Women Engineers.

Admissions Reports Rise in Applicants •••••••••••••••••••• In spite of declining numbers of high school graduates nationwide, Trinity saw an increase of two percent in its applicant pool over last year, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid David Borus '68.

"We are encouraged to have a very strong pool of some 2,850 candidates," Borus said, "and the outlook is excellent for an outstanding freshman class."

Already 96 freshmen have indicated Trinity to be their first choice as the result of the Early Decision Program.

These numbers are about the same as a year ago, but well ahead of 1990 when there were only 75 in the early decision category.

Letters of admission were sent out at the end of March with an acceptance deadline of May 1. The College also held spring Visitation Days on April 14, 15, and 16 to give prospective students the chance to take a second look at the campus before making a final decision.

A profile of the Class of 1996 will appear in the next issue of the Reporter.

Changed Alcohol Policy Improves Social Scene ••••• •••••• •••• •••• • • R estricting the service of hard alcohol and making female monitors available are among student efforts implemented this semester to make campus social events safer.

At the end of the fall semester, President Tom Gerety adopted a student recommendation limiting the service of hard alcohol at all-campus parties. The policy change was developed by the Student Government Association (SGA) in conjunction with the Interfraternity Council and the PanHellenic Association.

"I speak for both the President's and Dean ofStudents' offices in applauding the initiative and action taken by the students," Dean of Students David Winer said about the new alcohol policy in a memo to the student body.

"It is impressive to see you assume

such significant responsibility for your own affairs."

Winer said it is unusual for students to make such a proposal on their own.

More typically, a stricter alcohol policy would be developed by the administration or by administrators working with students.

"I think this is the only way for people to respect the policy and take it seriously," Craig C. Woerz '93, president of SGA, says of the student initiative. "It's not someone reaching down and taking something away from students."

The new policy states that "hard alcohol cannot be served at any open party, except in the case of formal events. The number of open forn<al events is limited to one per semester for each sponsoring individual or student organization."

"Hard alcohol can be more easily abused," says Woerz. "With this policy change students are saying they are willing to take responsibility for themselves and their actions."

The new alcohol policy is part of an ongoing SGA study of social life at Trinity. Woerz says SGA is now looking into providing more events at which alcohol may be served but is not the main attraction.

"We want to develop something that bridges the gap between keg parties and doing nothing," Woerz says.

The new Peer Monitoring Program was developed by four female students (three of whom are members of sororities) with assistance from the Women's Center. Each of the program's 30 peer monitors received eight to 10 hours of training from Women's Center Coordinator Diane R. Martell and a representative of the Hartford Sexual Assault Crisis Service to help them recognize the signs and symptoms of harassment and assault, know what resources are available to women, and understand the issue of confidentiality. At parties, they are identified by their purple Tshirts.

"We're there to be approached," says Rachel E. Schreier '93, one of the program's founders. "We don't go around at a party saying 'You're too close' or 'That corner's too dark."' The monitors are available to help any

woman who needs assistance, however, and they have the cooperation of the party sponsor and its male monitors in removing any man whose behavior seems harassing.

A minimum of two peer monitors attend any party to which they are invited. There is not yet a policy requiring their presence, but party sponsors have been requesting their services.

"It's going fantastically," Schreier says of the program . "There hasn't been any negative feedback ."

In developing the program, organizers did a survey of Trinity's peer institutions. No other college in the suivey has a monitoring program such as Trinity's.

Campus Housing Gets New Master Plan ••••••••••••••••••••• A vastly changed "master plan" for campus housing will debut in 1992- 93, giving students more choices in the annual spring housing lottery in late April.

According to Director ofResidential Life Kristina Dow '75, the new plan addresses some perceived and real problems with the current system. Under the new plan: freshmen will be concentrated entirely in certain dorms; more restrictions will be placed on Program Groups, those students with shared interests who are housed together; a Magnet dormitory program will bring together students from the same academic disciplines; a Senior Experience program will be inaugurated; and the majority of the most desirable housing will be available to upperclassmen.

"We hope this new master plan will bring improvements to campus housing in many areas," Dow said. "It incorporates ideas from several campus committees, including the strategic planning subcommittee on Residential and Non-Academic Life, and from the residential staff, both as individuals and as an ongoing planning group .

"This past year's Freshman Experience program was a great success. We housed freshmen together, according to their freshman seminar assignments, allowing seminar faculty to program

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events with these students in the dorms. It was a good effort, aimed at bringing classroom life into the dorms and helping freshmen get to know each other better outside of class.

"This year we're applying the concepts of this program to other dorms and classes. The Freshman Experience program lends itself to an easy conversion to the Senior Experience.

Helping students to understand the value of diversity at Trinity can be transferred to recognizing the need for sensitivity toward others in the work place and at home. Skills learned in resolving conflicts in the dormitory and with The Vernon Street dormitory will be the home for the Senior Experience in 1992-93. parents and siblings become techniques in success of the Chinese Cultural Proresolving conflicts with supervisors, tern and taking over the most desirable gram Group two years ago. Faculty and mentors, and spouses. There'll be outdormitories.

"With the Program Groups, we students requested the establishment of side speakers, discussing topics such as writing resumes." looked at small, less desirable dorms a Science Dorm and a Community Service Dorm. A Quiet Dorm has Approximately 125 seniors can be Boardwalk, Park Place, Doonesbury, been in existence since students estaband Wiggins - that are not noted for accommodated in the Senior Experilished it in the mid-'80s; recently sturesident interaction. We felt introducence dormitory, the new Vernon Street dorm, with the remainder of the ing the Program Groups in these dorms dents organized a Music Dorm and La Voz Latina's Hispanic Culture Program Class of '93 selecting from other availcould improve the quality of life. Even Group. Students for Equality, an orgain less desirable housing, the quality of able housing. The Senior Experience option will be open to all seniors, with a Program Group experience, including nization committed to studying issues of gender, race and class, shares two the exploration and development of participation being voluntary. floors ofHigh Rise Dormitory.

The Freshman Experience, launched resident self-governance, should offset The new master plan also calls for the this year in Elton and Jones dormitoany negative perceptions of the space continued involvement in residential ries, will be expanded in 1992-93. Vir- allocated." life by the faculty, both as individuals tually all members of the Class of '96 The additional restrictions on Prowill live in all-freshman dormitories: gram Groups follow the recommendaand as collective departments. The new tions of the primarily undergraduate Science Dorm, requested by chairmen Elton, Jones, Smith, North Campus, of the science departments, represents Frohman/Robb, and Little. These Program Group Study Group. They such faculty involvement. suggested that Program Group resiresidence halls will be closed to upper"'Academic' housing would seem to dence be limited to two academic classmen. be a very positive step in the improveyears, in whole or in part, to prevent Under the new master plan, a limment of residential/intellectual life. At students' participation from becoming ited number of competitively selected the same time, two frequently-voiced an isolating experience.

Program Groups will be allowed to concerns have arisen with regard to the In existence for more than a decade choose from a limited number of less at Trinity, Program Groups recently concept of special 'academic' housing: desirable dorms. This action addresses the concern that Program Groups have enjoyed a surge in popularity. that is, the potential for the isolation of disciplines in this liberal arts environcould form with the idea of circumStudents and faculty have established ment, and the potential for the misuse/ several new programs, following the venting the dormitory assignment sys-

abuse of a selective assignment process to secure highly desirable housing."

Dow says that living/learning "magnets" address these concerns. With the Magnet program, certain residence assignments will be determined by the participating academic department(s) and the balance of residence assignments in the dorm will have no stipulation. In an 88- bed dorm identified as a Science Magnet, for example, 15 beds could be set aside for incoming freshmen in the Interdisciplinary Science Program, and another ten beds could be set aside for teaching assistants in the sciences, honors candidates, and others who would create a "magnet" population. That would leave 63 beds to be assigned through the general housing lottery. Through the use of the facilities provided, it would then be up to the sponsoring department(s) and their " magnet" populations to create programs and study group activity to which other appropriate individuals would be drawn. The "magnet" concept, Dow says, allows Residential Life to promote departmental efforts toward improving the tone of residential/intellectual life while at the same time not sending into isolation all Science majors, for example, nor giving all Science majors an unfair advantage in securing some of the best housing on campus.

"In the Science Dorm, what's important for students is having th eir teaching assistant down the hall, having study groups in the lounge , and other students nearby who share their worries and classes. It's the student-to-student interaction that counts in all of these housing situations."

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Howard DeLong was named the Brownell Professor of Philosophy; he will deliver his inaugural lecture in October. He is the author of a forthcoming book on American political philosophy titled A Court of Common Reason, and the author of A Profile cif Mathematical Logic and A Rifutation of Arrow's Theorem. He has taught at Trinity College since 1960.

Howard DeLong

Kenneth Uoyd-Jones

Anthony D. Macro

RalphO. Moyer,Jr.

Albert J. Howard, Jr. was appointed the Jarvis Professor of Physics.

In his inaugural speech in February, he lectured on the "Search for Superheavy Elements in Nature." His research work is in experimental nuclear physics with emphasis on problems in nuclear astrophysics and the nucleosynthesis of the elements, and applications of nuclear physics in atomic physics and in geophysics. Howard has been a member of the faculty since 1962.

Kenneth Lloyd-Jones was named the John J. McCook Professor of Modern Languages and was scheduled to give his inaugural lecture in April on "Language and the Human Condition: Some Renaissance Perspectives." He chairs the department of modern languages and comparative literatures, and teaches French, Italian and Spanish. He has published widely in the areas of French literature, the Renaissance and humanism. He has been on the Trinity faculty since 1978.

Anthony D. Macro was appointed the Hobart Professor of Classical Languages. He will give his inaugural lecture in October on a topic to be announced.

He has taught at Trinity College since 1969 and chairs the classics department.

His areas of specialization are ancient Greece and Rome, Greek and Celtic mythology, and the Celtic peoples.

Ralph 0 . Moyer, Jr. was appointed the Scovill Professor of Chemistry. He gave his inaugural lecture last year on "From Fibers to Energy and Beyond: Creating Materials Through Chemistry for Society." His research interests are inorganic chemistry of the rare earths and platinum metals, chemistry of the solid state, structural studies using diffraction techniques, and magnetic and electrical measurements. H e joined the Trinity faculty in 1969.

Samuel D. Kassow '66 was appointed to a two- year term as the Charles A. Dana Research Professor of History. He is the author of the book Students, Prcifessors and the State in Tsarist Russia: 1884-1917 and co- edited Between Tsar and People: the Search for a Public Identity in Tsarist Russia . He has been a member of the Trinity faculty since 1972, and teaches Russian, Soviet, modern Jewish and modern European history.

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BY CHRISTOPHER BROWN

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et the sun shine in! ' may be the most appropriate phrase to accompany the new swinuning pool and squash complex, which are the latest additions to Trinity's Ferris Athletic Center.

Last October, the squash complex was initiated by hosting the final CocaCola International Squash Grand Prix Event of the season, and this past January 21st, Trinity's swim teams went against

Wesleyan in the first competition in the new pool.

Campus reaction to the $4.1 Ferris expansion has been unanimously enthusiastic. "This is a bright, cheerful place to come to in the dead of winter. A lot of new pools don't have the windows we have," explains Head Coach Chet McPhee, "and the natural light gives our pool the edge." Even though both of his teams lost their inaugural meets, the day proved to be a rewarding one for McPhee, who has spent many seasons coaching in the dank confines of the

1929-vintage Trowbridge Pool. "I've been here 35 years, and there has been talk about a new pool since I arrived," said McPhee. "I figured I'd live to see a new pool, but I didn't think I'd ever coach in it. I wouldn't trade it for any other pool in our league."

The new pool is located in the former courtyard area between the old pool and the wrestling and crew tank rooms of the athletic center. On both ends of the facility, huge windows flood the pool with natural light. The. pool contains eight lanes and is 37 meters in length. A move-

Trinity' s new pool (left) , which opened in january, is 37 meters long with Slanes for competition. A moveable bulkhead (shown below) separates the diving and warm-up area from the racing lanes. An automatic timing system is hooked up to the digital scoreboard, which displays race times for all lanes simultaneously.

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able bulkhead, which is roughly three yards wide and runs the 60-foot width of the pool, makes it possible to adjust the pool's length as desired.

"With eight lanes, we can conduct practices that take into account different style techniques," explains McPhee "It allows us to cater to the specialty races and to fine- tune our workouts." Another team that will benefit from the moveable bulkhead will be the men's water polo squad. In the old pool, one goal was in the shallow end, allowing the goaltender in that end to stand. Now, with fixtures

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Squash complex contains ten new courts, three of which are international courts. The arrangement of the courts (see above) and the glass backwalls allow coaches and spectators to watch several matches at once. Bottom photograph, taken from inside a court, shows the stepped spectator area, which is ideal for tournament situations .

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in place to mount a goal, the bulkhead will be positioned to ensure that no player is able to touch bottom.

Since Trowbridge pool had only four lanes, practices and meets were inhibited by the obvious lack of space. One of the more subde advantages of the new pool is the increased number oflane dividers in the water. These colorful plastic lines not only mark the lanes, but also help to calm the surface. As a result, Trinity swimmers will enjoy more consistent practice and race conditions than previously, which will lead to improved performances and new records in seasons to come.

The new facility also features two diving boards, a one- meter board and a threemeter board, an automatic timing system, and a digital scoreboard that displays the times of all eight lanes simultaneously, making the results of each race more immediately available to the spectators.

Besides the aesthetic advantages, the new facility is a huge step towards providing Trinity swimmers, both present and furure, with an opporrunity to perform at the same high levels that they achieve in the classroom. "This pool will be an enormous plus for recruiting," says McPhee. "In the past, prospective students would be interested in our school and program while sitting in my office, and then I'd watch their faces fall when I showed them the old pool. They'd ask, 'Where do you have your home meets?"' Now, all a prospective srudent has to do is look out the window of McPhee's office, which is tucked in the comer of the new facility, to be convinced by a brand-new pool.

Trinity alurnni/ae looking for a firsthand view are invited to attend the pool dedication ceremony on May 16, 1992.

The new squash complex was officially dedicated on April10. Counting the six original courts, Trinity now has 16 courts in all, including three international courts, making the new complex one of the best facilities in New England.

Trinity stands as one of the top choices for all major tournaments from the junior

level all the way up to the professional ranks. "I enjoy watching the facial expressions of the opposing players when they see our facility for the first tin1e," said Wendy Bardett, head coach for women's squash. "They are really impressed."

The new courts are located above the men's equipment room on the third floor of the Ferris Athletic Center. Unlike the original courts, which were lined up sideby-side along a narrow hallway, the new facility is an arena, which benefits both the spectators and athletes.

The courts fom1 a "U" along three walls of the facility, and a pyramid-shaped seating area is located in the center space adjoining the fourth wall. From this vantage point, spectators can keep track of all of the team's action. " In the old courts," says Men's Head Coach John Anz, "watching one contest was inclusive and exclusive. Now I can watch all five matches from one spot." This fearure allows Anz to walk over and give a player some quick directions between games without losing track of his players on the other courts. While this is an important coaching advantage for Anz, he points out that it works much the same way for the spectators. "Before, 30 to 50 fans would line up in front of one court and have no chance of seeing what was taking place in the other matches. Now, every seat is the best seat in the house."

Other important fearures of the new facility include a climate-controlled environment and an exceptional lighting system. In the old squash area, air was pumped in direcdy from the outside through tin ducts at the base of each court. Because the court temperarure was influenced by the weather outside, playing conditions were inconsistent. In winter, it meant a cold practice environment, which not only affected the players, but the rubber ball itself "It was mainly cold throughout the season in the old courts," remarks Bardett, "and that's why it's so much fun to play in the new area. It's always warm

and bright." The improved visibility is achieved through a complete lighting system, which is complemented by the glass back walls of the courts and the high ceiling. In fact, the new facility is so comfortable that it attracts srudents even when they are not looking for a good competitive game of squash. "I've come here at night," explains Anz, "and found people studying in the spectator area. It's simply a nice place to hang out."

The courts are expected to have a major impact on the development of the squash program. Next year, the College will be the site of the Women's National Intercollegiate Singles Championship.

Anz believes that tournaments provide good visiibility for Trinity among prospective students, whether they play squash or not. "We hosted a major tournament last spring, and we will host the United States National Junior Tournament next year. By next March, nearly 150 athletes under the age of 16 along with their parents and friends will have come to Trinity to play in one of these tournaments."

Another important factor in the new facility is its flexibility. Currendy, there are two distinct versions of squash racquets-the international and the American game. The international game employs a softer ball and a larger court than the American game. There is currendy a movement to consolidate the game of squash into the international gan1e in the near future. If this were to happen, Trinity could easily transform its facility to accommodate such a change.

The result would be seven international courts and two American courts. "The most important aspect of this facility," says Coach Anz, "is that everything was done professionally and with enough forethought that there is no longer a possibility for our programs to outgrow it.

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Christopher Brown '90 is Trinity's Sports biformation Director.

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"That God is a Sondheim fan is clear: look at the weather today. That is a Sondheim Saturday!"

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God, several hundred enthusiastic participants- and even (to a degree) New York magazine critic Simon turned out to be fans ofBroadway lyricistcomposer Stephen Sondheim as they gathered in a gray New England drizzle for a daylong assessment ofSondheim's work.

"A Sondheim Saturday" had been a dream ofTrinity associate professor of Music Gerald Moshell, "practically since birth ," as Austin Arts Center clirector Jeffry Walker put it. And Sondheim enthusiasts travelled from as fur as New York and Massachusetts to join Moshell and Connecticut devotees in enjoying the realization of his dream.

From their arrival to the strains of "Merrily We Roll Along" to their departure, accompanied by "A Litde Night Music," participants in the daylong symposium (partially funded by a grant from the Edward C. And Ann T. Roberts Foundation, Incorporated exulted in the words, music and world view of the composer of musical shows that range from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" to "Assassins."

An hour-long rendition ofSondheim numbers by performers Elaine Stritch and Jim Walton prompted an ovation, but the day's equivalent of a Broadway showstopper may well have been critic Simon's reassessment of his reviews of not only Sondheim shows - but of all American musical theater. Acknowledging that "musical comedy is not mother's milk to me" Simon said his past reviews "do not reflect my present

view," but rather his earlier, European, non-musical comedy background. When a questioner described his "newfound love" of the American musical, though, Simon hastened to clarifY that it's not a love: "more like appreciation .. respect. ..

I might write a more favorable review of 'Sweeney Todd' today." His rethought opinion brought praise from fellow critic Frank Rich of The New York Times, who pointed out th~t criticism should be seen as part of a continuum and that Simon's reassessment ofSondheim is "something to cherish in a critic."

If Simon escaped being found guilty of contracliction, Sondheim himself clid not. Program organizer Moshelllooked at 35 years ofSondheim lyrics, examining their contraclictions as the author looks at life choices- and, in Meshell's view, concludes "there may be better choices or worse choices- but no perfect choices."

has ever been produced on Broadway."

Not the building but the beam, Not the garden but the stone, Only cups of tea And history ...

"PACIFIC OvEKTU R.ES "

While other participants in the symposium were concerned with Sondheim's place in the history of the American musical theater, Associate Professor of History Michael Lestz '68 concerned himself with the place of one Sondhein1 show "Pacific Overtures," in the history of the world. As guests enjoyed a buffet lunch in Mather Hall's Washington Room, Lestz (admitting " I won't be singing!") oudinedJapanese history leading to the opening of trade with the West in the 1850's. Lestz observes that the rise of the Japanese shogun was a response to what the T11e choice may have hem mistaken., Japanese saw as a growing "Christian The choosing was not. conspiracy" in the late-16th and early" SUNDAY I TH E PAKK WIT H G EOR.GE " 17th centuries as Spain and Portugal sent missionaries along with traders, until tens Moshell himself said he had no choice of thousands of Christians were killed, in one matter. Quoting a fellow professor and the remaining converts forced who insists that a lecture about music must underground. Then, from 1636 to 1854, have music, he performed three Japan banished foreigners and prevented Sondheim compositions to illustrate his the Japanese from travelling abroadargument: "Sorry-Grateful" from 1970's though Dutch Calvinist and Chinese and "Company;" "Finishing the Hat" from Korean traders clid gain access.

1984's "Sunday in the Park with By the time Commodore Matthew George;" and Sondhein1's most popular Perry arrived with his four black ships, single, "Send in the Clowns," from 1973's Japanese military capability was well "A Litde Night Music," placing each behind that of the West, and the shogun show and each character in his or her faced the "very delicate position" of musical theater era and assessing the either resisting and facing a possibly differences in the way he or she looks at suicidal war, or of not resisting and life. risking being seen as not protecting the Moshell shared some ofhis own views people. Instead, Lestz described (and on Sondheim during the question period, 路 Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures" disclisagreeing with those who feel the lyrics are cold, and describing "Merrily We Roll Along" (which closed after 16 performances) as "the greatest flop that

played) how the leaders temporized "by adopting a policy that offended nearly everyone."

The cast ofTrinity's "Pacific Overtures" joined Elaine Stritch on stage, in front of the six painted screens which made up pan of the show's set for "Company's 'The Little Things You Do Together."' She opened her portion of the perfom1ance segment with a winning rendition of"Broadway Baby," and the Sondheim song with which she's perhaps most closely identified, "The Ladies Who Lunch." And Stritch offered her own favorite Sondheim song ("and I have a suspicion it's his,") "Anyone Can Whistle."

Jim Walton, whose Sondheim career began as what he described as "the youngest, thinnest Pseudolus ever" in any production of"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opened with "Rich and Happy" from " Merrily We Roll Along," with a nod to Moshell and Stritch on the line "sman and funny," and " Love, I Hear" from "Forum, ' performing pans of it slumped against the piano and pans flat on the floor, and miming wiping his face with 'water' from the painted screen. He

included two pieces from "Sweeney Todd," "Ah, Miss," and 'johanna" and, from " Merrily We Roll Along," " Not a Day Goes By." The two paired for an especially sincere/sarcastic "You Must Meet My Wife."

Clive Barnes once told me, "You're getting so good at these things that you're going to integrate yourself right out cif the business."

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Patricia Birch, who has choreographed such Sondheim shows as "Pacific Ovenures" and "A Little Night Music," told the symposium that songs as intensely verbal as Sondheim's allow for little "showoff dancing." She pointed out that when you're dealing with words, the assignment is to get the words out.

And she added that Sondheim himself makes no contribution to the discussion of staging.

But director Susan Schulman, whose "Sweeney Todd" revival was nominated for a Tony Award, and whose other Sondheim projects have included Dana 14'/ia/en is assignmem editor for W TIC Television in Hartford and has seen Sondheim shows on Broadway, dating back to "Company ."

13 presentations of"Company" and "A Little Night Music," hastened to remind the symposium that choreography is more than dance alone - that productions like Birch's "A Little Night Music" are "highly choreographed, even though there's not much dancing." She says extra "write-outs" for scenery changes don't interrupt musicals today the way they slowed down shows of the past. Rich (whose mother claims she was listening to the 78 rpm records of "South Pacific" when she went into labor) described the changes as a "revolution" in movement, and says staging is seen as more of an an today- pointing out that he, for one, will look for a more sophisticated staging in the spring, 1992 "Guys and Dolls" on Broadway.

Walton says he sees Sondheim as primarily a dramatist "who asks himself, 'Do these characters sing?' but I don't think he says 'Do they dance?"'

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ctober, 1991-As I sat on the JES Airplane (one of two owned by the newly birthed Bulgarian airline company)! had to marvel at the thought that the performance ensemble and I were on our way to perform at the National Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria. We had been invited to represent the U.S. at the International Festival "Theatre in a Suitcase," a biannual international festival. Due to the economic difficulties that Bulgaria is facing now as she makes the transition from a Communist-run government to some form of democracy, the festival was cancelled. Such events, previously supported by the State, are now having to find their own financing through private benefactors and sponsors. They are learning about the struggles of the artist in a free society.

Through the efforts ofDarnian Popchristov, a well-known Bulgarian director who had seen a tape of the piece we were to perform, "Distant Voices Corning Near," we were invited to initiate a series of monthly performance tours by artists from around the world at the National Theatre in Sofia. We accepted.

None of us had any expectations of what this tour would be like . We were the first American dance company to perform at the National Theatre, a venue more commonly presenting Strindberg, Ibsen and Chekhov. For several members of the ensemble, this was a first trip outside of the U.S.A. And the piece, "Distant Voices Coming Near," a work that integrates movement, voice and light into an evolutionary journey through time, had not been seen outside of our own cultural milieu.

We landed the day after the first major election since Bulgaria became a democracy in 1989. The votes had not been tallied and, in fact, at the time of our departure a week later, the final count was still not in. The Commu-

Left, Kelly James '91 performs in "Distant Voices Coming Near," choreographed by Trinity Director ofDanceJudy Dworin. Above, shown leaving Sofia are, left to right: James, Blu, Lisa Matias Serrambana '90, Kathy Borteck Gersten, Judy Dworin, and Orion Duckstein.

nists and the Union ofDemocratic Forces were running neck and neck.

(Much to the dismay ofUDF enthusiasts) . Over 50 parties had put up candidates for this election, so in some ways it was not surprising that a majority was hard to come by. As we toured the theatre upon our arrival in Sofia, a massive rally of democratic supporters was being held in the square directly outside the theatre. I had no t seen this kind of committed political energy since memorable rallies in the '60s in this country. As Dr. Vassil Stefanov, Director of the National Theatre said, "I am no t sure if you are most interested in seeing the theatre you will be performing in or in what is going on in the plaza outside!"

T he theatre in which we were to perform was a 250-seat house used for experimental productions of the 45member company of the National Theatre. All of the seats were moveable - one could pull the seats out of a given area, cap the wells in the ground where the seats had been and create a performance area. All the sections of the floor could be raised and lowered. We chose our section, walked over the somewhat uneven surface and wondered if Marley dance floors had ever found their way

to Sofia. They hadn't, but black vinyl floor covering of some origin had been procured and it worked - certainly well enough.

We then went to our hotel, a new private home-turned-hotel, part of the wave of private enterprise sweeping the country. It was located in a little town on the side of a mountain, Simeonovo, named after the King of Bulgaria who presently lives in Spain. His poster is seen everywhere. Many people that we met wait for his return home with great anticipation. H e is known as a man of integrity and compassion and in the gloomy economic picture that Bulgarians presently look at, a monarch seems like an appealing savior.

Each day we were awakened to the crow of roosters and travelled from the hotel to the theatre, twice with a herd of sheep blocking our way down the mountain. We had breakfast in the theatre cafe and then went to work or some days toured the city. Our poster was everywhere we went. The efforts the theatre people made to publicize our performance was positively amazing - something one could only wish for back horne! No one was sure who would come to the performance - it was election week and everyone was

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press conference - we were interviewed for T.V. and a section of the piece was filmed and broadcast.

Suddenly, the word was that we were sold out for every show. We were initially contracted to do three performances with a possible fourth if there were interest. On Thursday, the Director's second-in-command asked me if we could add one or two shows - although it was unprecedented to call an additional show the day before and fill the house. We said yes. We filled every house .

The energy and enthusiasm with which the work was received felt genuin e and affirming. W e began to have discussions with the audience after each show to give people a chance to ask questions about the work. They were most interested in the collaborative approach to the creation of the work, the focus on improvisation as an approach to developing material, the emphasis on a natural, primal movement vocabulary, and the integration of the music, light and set elements with the movement. They were curious about my experience living in Asia and the influence this has had on my work. They wanted to know how the company members made a living.

Could they survive on the work alone?

And how could the company make ends meet? People who are trying to break new ground in the arts in Bulgaria were especially draw n to our performances and discussions. Several theatre groups invited us to come and see videotapes of their work. Time only permitted one visit. Many said they would write. A particularly memorable moment occurred coming out of our last performance on Saturday, when a yo ung girl just out of high school who had been at several of our performances asked us if we would please

The Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble demonstrates techniques in an open class for actors in the National Theatre in Sofia, Bulgaria, above; below the group has a discussion with the audience after a performance in the National Theatre.

take a minute to watch a piece that she had made for her graduation project.

She said she thought it was similar to one of the solos in our piece. It was a gutsy piece about struggle for freedom the movement organic and the commitment to perfonnance focused. W e applauded her soundly and thanked her for the exchange - these kinds of dialogues felt important and real.

As we boarded JES 202 to depart Sofia, familiar faces from the flight crew ofJES 201 welcomed us aboard. It felt like old friends . It had been a rich and moving experience, this tour to Sofia.

The work- its message, its intent-

had reached people and transcended cultural difference, establishing a line of communication that left none of us the same as when we had departed the U.S. The Judy Dwori11 Peljorma11ce Ensemble is a flexible company ofpeifomrers, desig11ers and composers collaborating 011 an Ol'rgoing repertory of dance/theatre work. Members of the E11semble wlro wellf to B11lgaria inc/11ded peifomrers Kathy Borreck Gersten, Ori01.1 D11ckstein , Kelly J anres and Lisa Matias Serrambana; lighti11g designer Bl11 a11d set designer Aug11ss Moss .]11dy Dworin '70formded, and 110LII directs tire dauce departmeut at Triuity.

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A selection of photos from recent events on campus

Students of Robert Kirschbaum, associate professor and director of studio arts, exhibited their work in the spring semester. Studio arts major Kim Piotrowski '93 contributed this work to the show.

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At the February gallery reception opening "The Order of Things: Toward a Politic ofStill Life " in Austin Arts Center's Widener Gallery, Robert Kirschbaum, associate professor and director of studio arts , talks with Laura Cloud, visiting assistant professor of fine arts . The exhibition of paintings, photographs, sculptures and multi-media works reflecting sociopolitical issues of the day was co-presented with Real Art Ways.

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During her ten-day stay on campus in March as poet-inresidence, Marge Piercy gave public readings, met with aspiring poets from Hartford high schools, and, left, spoke with undergraduates in a writing class taught by Thalia Selz, front row, second from right.

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Trowbridge Pool at Ferris Athletic Center was the setting for Bad Penny by Mac Wellman, a philosophical play first performed in Central Park. The March production was directed by Christine C . Klotz '92 as part of her senior thesis project. From left: Klotz; Alex H. Shapiro '93 ; Kellij . Harrington '94; and Nancy Chu '95, in the canoe lent by President Tom Gerety. The cast also included Luke McGrath '92, Anna P. Menendez '92 and Kathleen M. Powers '92.

"An Evening with the Freedom Singers," members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the '60' s, attracted students to the Washington Room on a Friday evening in March.

The new Gallows Hill Book Store has added a new feature : cappuccino! Concessionaire Peter Brainard '88 is shown serving to Quanti Davis '93 and Assistant Professor of History John Chatfield '65.

Just two days before withdrawing officially from the presidential race, former Senator Paul Tsongas spoke to an enthusiastic, overflow crowd in the Washington Room of Mather Hall. He cheerfully wore a Trinity lacrosse hat as he left the podium (inset) ; at left are the event cochairmen, from left to right, Chris Goffredo '92 , Craig Bramley '92 , and Adam R. Kreisel ' 94.

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Above, writer Michelle Cliff, who visited the campus and read from her works , talks with Professor of English and American Studies James Miller.

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olumbus discovered America. So did LeifEricsson. And so, possibly, did St. Brendan, and the Portuguese, and heaven knows who else. Phoenician inscriptions have been found in Pennsylvania. And what is one to make of the stories of Welsh-speaking "white" Indians in Kentucky?

This is not to take anything away from Columbus.

The nation will go on celebrating October 12th with apologies to none. Still, it would be gratifYing to Americans of Scottish ancestry if a day were set aside to honor H enry Sinclair.

Who was Henry Sinclair?

H enry " the Holy" Sinclair, Baron of Roslin , Earl of Orkney, and premier noble of N orway, was a fighting Scot of Viking descent. He could trace his maternal ancestry to such doughty Norsemen as Thorfinn Skullcleaver and the mighty Sigurd, who fell at Clontarff in 1014. His forebears also include Norse kings, among them Halfdan the Stingy and Ingiald lllruler.

Given his heritage, it was perhaps natural that Henry should be a sailor. But that he should sail to Massachusetts and camp on the banks of the Merrimack a century before Columbus persuaded Isabella to pawn her jewels is perhaps more than one would expect of even so hardy a Scot.

To appreciate Sinclair's story, one must skip six centuries or so and drop in on the postmaster of Clinton, Connecticut.

In 1952, Frank Glynn - sometime Wesleyan football stalwart, sometime fanner, amateur archaeologist, and postmaster for the saltwater village of Clinton - sat browsing through William Goodwin's book, The Ruins if Great Ireland i11 New England. On p.54 he found a drawing of what appeared to be a sword carved in a stone. Glynn frowned. Could it be a Viking blade? There was no clue in the text.

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Glynn closed the book, but the drawing continued to haunt hin1. Finally, he decided to consult with T.C. Lethbridge, curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Cambridge, England. He sent the book to Lethbridge.

Weeks passed. The reply came, and with it some astonishing news. The sword in the drawing was not, Lethbridge said, a Viking weapon . It was, rather, a 14th- century ponunel sword of the kind seen in stone carvings of armored knights found in churches and crypts in the north ofEngland. Lethbridge urged Glynn to find that stone.

But finding that particular rock turned into a twoyear quest. Glynn scoured the New England countryside whenever he could steal the time. He walked the woods, questioned townsfolk, searched old records. No one seemed to know ij of any carving of a sword on a stone.

Then, in May of 1954, someone men-~ 路路~ tioned a curiously carved stone in Westford, Massachusetts. _ /'l()lfA w~r \;. ;; On a rainy morning, Glynn and his TRM(~ nine-year-old daughter set out for -------- -:;a\_IWfSTTORI Westford, some six miles southwest of ' Lowell, and four miles from the bend of the Merrimack River. "There is a carving on a ledge," the Westford librarian told Glynn . "It's not far from the Mohawk Trail. People call it the old Indian." She added that some local humorist carved a pipe in the Indian's mouth some years before.

That, it seemed, was that. Glynn was for going home, but his daughter insisted that they have a look.

Resignedly, Glynn drove out to the ledge. Together, he and his daughter braved the rain for a closer look.

There was a discernible face, with a pipe crudely

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The Westford Knight, discovered in 1955, offers solid evidence that Scots were in New England 97 years before Columbus set sail from Spain. An artist's rendering of the Knight highlights evidence that enabled experts to date his arrival in Massachusetts.

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etched near the mouth. Glynn again wring revenues from the islanders suggested it was rime to head home, for Norway, the golden circlet devolved on the fair head of but his daughter urged that they clear away the tangle of vegetation Henry Sinclair. This was in 1379.

DATIIIG El fMEHTS ~.r Hltlflf that had overgrown much of the Being named ruler of the \'u•• ,.,,.~,oAr glacial slab.

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IUO - I Ifo Shaking his head, Glynn fetched a them was another. The 53 inhab... ited islands of the earldom, spread hand ax and a sickle from the car out over 170 watery miles, were and attacked the growth. When the obscuring leaves and vines were hardly a cohesive political unit. If cleared away, he washed down the Henry was to bring order to this surface - to reveal a six-foot figure realm, he would have to do so by main force. So he built a fleet. By of a knight in armor, complete with a shield bearing a coat- of-arms, his 1389 he had assembled his own right hand resting on the hilt of a personal navy, and he had the ... ~___ .............. ~~~,'\, broken sword. (In heraldry, the Orkneys under controL Then _, break in the blade signifies that its came word from Norway: "Sub.;:~ t·{ ./~ owner died in the field.)

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The figure was acrually punched , ,, Henry set sail in the summer of KNIGIITS • into the rock, probably with the 1390 with 13 vessels and a goodly &llfAT !;woRf tools of an armorer-smith. Although 1 100 _ 1 ~ 00 • ·._,-.'!~ ··, company of men-at-arms. He ::::;'.) ''"...- --- ,, , came to Fer Isle and went ashore the military effigy was common in ---~ • • -1 to educate the inhabitants. While England, this punch technique is not British; it is Scandinavian. he was there, a storm blew up and On his next visit, Glynn filled in drove a passing ship onto a ree( and connected the punch marks The natives, hungry for loot, .' with chalk and photographed the charged down to the beach, wavresult. H e sent the picrure and a G LAc: 1 ~ L ing their knives in a manner that ' ' detailed drawing of the am1S on the sn' 111 boded ill for any mariner who shield to Lethbridge. Several years managed to make it to shore.

Sinclair sent his soldiers into the and many letters passed before Lethbridge, aided by Sir Jain fray, ending the Islanders' hope of Moncreiffe, Scottish herald and booty and saving the wet skins of •• noted historian, was able to identify the strangers . ..,' To Sinclair's astonishment, he the arms as those of the clan Gunn, ofThurso in the north ofScotland. found that the sailors were Italian, There could be no doubt that under the command ofNicolo Glynn had rumed up an effigy of a Zeno, brother of Carlo, "The The Knight's helmet is a type that appeared 14th-cenrury Scottish knight beside a Lion ofVenice," whose fame as a naval circa 1360 and fell out of use by 40 years later. country road in Massachusetts. genius was well known to the Scot.

The device on his shield identifies him as a Lethbridge knew that the Gunns were Why, Sinclair wanted to know, was member of Clan Gunn, kinsmen to Henry kin to Sinclair, and that Sinclair had Nicolo sailing these northern seas?

Sinclair. been an ocean rover. It remained now Nicolo replied that he had "a very great to dig into the life and career of Henry desire to see the world ... and make himhad been bequeathed to his mother. But self acquainted with the different custoll1S Sinclair for clues to the origins of the his claim was disputed by two cousins. and languages of mankind."

Westford knight. Lethbridge dug.

The Orkney Islands, the Shetlands, Sinclair, charmed by Zeno and his amHe learned that Sinclair was born in and the Faroes made up the earldom, and bition, took him and his men under his 1345 at Roslin Castle, eight miles north the earldom belonged to Norway. of Edinburgh. His father died on Cruprotection. Together they set about civiHaakon, king of Norway, had no parsade, and Henry, at 13, inherited the lizing the Shetlands, and Zeno, for his ticular reason to honor the young Scot's barony. At 21, as was the custom, he not inconsiderable help, was knighted by claim, but when one of the rival prethe noble Scot. Zeno now sent for his was knighted. And it was then that he tenders, Alexander de Ard, failed to wear brother Antonio to come and join him claimed the earldom of Orkney, which the coronet effectively - that is, failed to C) Q

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in Sinclair's service. In 1392, in company with Sir Nicolo, Sinclair availed himself of a safe-conduct from Richard II (no friend to Scots), and went to England to arm and outfit ships for the now widowed Queen Margaret ofNorway.

Norway knew no end of woes. Far from recovered from the ravages of the plague, the coasts were continually raided

by Baltic pirates; Iceland was in revolt, and the Faroes had virtually seceded.

Margaret, a remarkable woman who was to unite Denmark and Sweden with Norway, and was known as "the lady king," turned to Sinclair, her premier noble, for help in these troubled times.

He did not fail her.

He planned an assault on the Faroes, but rumor of a pirate raid on the Shedands caused him to shift course. He succeeded in discouraging the buccaneers, but he lost part of his fleet in a storm. With the Shedands secure for the moment, Sinclair now steered for Iceland, but he found the place too well fortified for his diminished force. He withdrew to the Shedands where he built a fort of his own.

Nicolo Zeno was left in command of the fort over the winter of 1393. Mter Sir Nicolo's death in Orkney in 1395, Sinclair named Antonio to succeed his brother as commander of his fleet .

Antonio's first mission was in the service of Pope Boniface rx, who ordered Bishop Henry of Orkney to Greenland, and Bishop John of Greenland to Orkney. The episcopal transfer was accomplished in Sinclair's ships under Antonio's command. It was in the course of this voyage that Antonio heard the tale that was to send the Earl of Orkney roving across the Adantic to our New England coast.

Antonio met a fisherman who told him that "six-and- twenty years before" a storm had driven his vessel off course and onto the shore of an island called Estotiland, a litde smaller than Iceland, and lying upwards of a thousand miles to the west of the Orkneys. That island is today called Newfoundland.

The fishennan said he had spent five

years in Estotiland, then traveled southward to a land "which they call Drogio."

The inhabitants here were of a ruder sort, and they fell upon the fisherman and his party and many were slain. But the fisherman and some few other lucky souls managed to save their lives by trading off the secret of fishing with nets.

(Interestingly, the archaeological evidence is that Indians of the Adantic coast did not begin to use nets until the 14th century.)

After 13 years among the red men, the

are scarce on windswept isles - determined to outfit an expedition to this new world. To Zeno's disappointment, Sinclair decided to head the expedition himselÂŁ In 1397, Sinclair set sail with "a considerable number of vessels and men."

The fleet made first for the Shedands, where they took on water and supplies.

Then, on April!, they weighed anchor and sailed west. After a stormy crossing, they reached the coast ofNewfoundland in late May. The inhabitants, mistrusting

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C. T. Lethbridge (in knickers), late curator ofEngland's Cambridge Museum, conducts Young Royals on a tour of the site of Sinclair's Orkney stronghold_

fisherman made his way back to Newfoundland where he and his companions built a ship and sailed for home.

Antonio Zeno, in writing his version of the fisherman's tale, described the land to the south ofNewfoundland as "qrandissimo e quasi un. nuovo mondo ." It is history's first reference to North America as the New World.

Sinclair, intrigued by the fisherman's story, and fully aware of the value of vast forests to his naval principality - for trees

Sinclair's intent, rallied on the beach to repel any attempt to land. Sinclair, low on provisions, and with a crew wearied by the fatigues of their voyage, seized the advantage of a fair wind and sailed ten days southwest. On the tenth day, and on the very brink ofJune, he found a snug harbor which, it being Trinity Sunday, he dubbed "Trin." The headland he called "Cape Trin."

From the harbor, the voyagers saw a great hill that poured forth smoke.

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Sinclair dispatched 100 tired soldiers to scout the terrain, detennine the source of smoke, and report on the inhabitants, if any. Then, on the 2nd ofJune, 1397, Henry Sinclair came ashore to claim this new world as a possession of the Earldom of Orkney.

Sinclair proposed to establish a settlement, but some of his party were longing for home. The compassionate Scot retained a number of small boats for the bolder faction, and granted leave for the homesick to take the ships and go. At Sinclair's request, Zeno reluctantly took command of the departing fleet, leaving Sinclair and his band to continue their exploration of this new world.

Brilliant archaeological detective work

by Frederick]. Pohl, author of Atlantic Crossings Bifore Columbus, and Prince Henry Sinclair, proves beyond reasonable doubt that Sinclair's base was in N ova Scotia. Fascinating evidence turns up in the legends of the Micmac Indians, legends which tell of a godlike being called Glooskap, or Kuloscap, noted for his wisdom and benevolence. H e was said to be a king who roved the seas. His home was a large town on an island, and he had nine daughters - as, in fact, had Sinclair. He came with many men and was armed with "a sword of sharpness," and he overcame his enemies not by might, but by craft.

Sinclair wintered in Nova Scotia, and how he spent his time is revealed in the Micmac saga. Their tradition is that, in the spring, Glooscap invited them to come see his new "canoe" floating in what is now known as Advocate Harbor. The Micmacs found not a canoe, but a ship, "like an island with trees growing on it. " Sinclair invited the Indians aboard and took them for a sail. (Another Micmac tale has it that when Glooscap was about to leave their land, he summoned up a whale and was carried off on its back. To people used only to the bark canoe, Sinclair's new ship must have seemed "very like a whale.")

Sinclair made a farewell speech to his hosts, telling them that he would not return, but that someday missionaries would come to teach them his religion .

(The first French priests to arrive in Nova Scotia found that the Micmacs

Frank Glynn of Clinton first

An photos by Early Shes Research Society of Rowley. Mass.

had already heard ofJesus Christ. They also knew how to roll dice, and knew the story ofJack and the Beanstalk.)

His farewells said, Sinclair set out to the southwest through the Bay of Fundy, bound for home. But, so Pohl theorizes, a nor' easter carried him to the N ew England coast where, being Sinclair, he decided to do some exploring. From Boston Harbor, Sinclair could surely see Prospect Hill in Westford. It seems likely that he and some of his men took a small boat up the Merrimack, then followed an Indian trail up to the top of the hill. It was there that one of Sinclair's loyal knights embarked on that last great voyage, and it was here that the armorersmith punched out in glacial rock a memorial to a brave sea rover.

Sinclair and his men departed. Time and nature did their work, and vines and brush grew up over the stone, all but obscuring this effigy. There on a ledge on Prospect Hill the voyager slept, unknown and unremarked for five full centuries and more- until the postmaster of Clinton cut away the growth and found the figure of the Westford knight.

Sinclair made his way back to Orkney in 1399. He left no record of the voyage, but Antonio Zeno did. He sent an account of his travels with Sinclair to the illustrious Carlo in Venice. What Carlo made of the narrative is not known.

Then, 130 years later, a little Nicolo, great-great-great grandson of Antonio, and equally great grandnephew of that same Sir Nicolo Zeno whom Sinclair rescued at Fer Isle, found the letters and began to tear them to bits. Happily, he was interrupted. In 1558, he published what remained of the Zeno papers.

For Henry Sinclair, all this was far too late. In the summer of 1404, the Orkneys were raided by the English, and Henry fell defending that dearly bought ground from which he had wandered so perilously far.

As for the Westford knight, once the brush was cut away, not even his armor was proof against New England weather.

No effort was made to preserve the effigy, and now the rare visitor is hard put to make out much more than the outline of the shield. Sinclair, the Zenos, the knight, and the postmaster of Clinton are all gone now. And while one may lament Earl Henry's undeserved obscurity, it is pleasant to imagine the players in the piece assembled in some far Valhalla where the courtly Sinclair and his gallant friends regale a village postmaster with many a mariner's tale.

(Richard White 's novel , SWORD OF THE NORTH , based on the life and the voyage of Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, is available from Green Hill Publishers , 722 Columbus St. , Ottawa, lL 61350.)

TRINITY REUNION THURSDAY 11 am-8 pm Registration & Room Assignment Austin Arts Center 12:15 pm

President's Welcome Reception &Luncheon Koeppel Student Center Vemon Street

9 am-noon and 1-5 pm

All Sports Camp for Children

9:30am3:30pm

Admissions Interview Appointments Reserved for alumni/ae sons and daughters who are completing their junior year in high school. Contact the.

Admissions Office directly (297-2180) to schedule an appointment, and be sure to indicate you are an alumnus/a who will be on campus for Reunion.

Downes Memorial

Lecture Following Lunch: The Trinity Campus and the EvolutiQn of the Burges Plan, 1870-1990 Peter J. Knapp '65 Head Reference Librarian and College Archivist 9:30A discussion of the historical legacy of 10:30 am William Burges' original four quadrangle plan on the development of today's campus.

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5:30pm

Half Century Club Reception & Dinner (Classes '15 - '47) Washington Room, Mather Hall

6-8 pm

Reception & Buffet Supper (Classes '48 - '91) Hamlin Dining Hall

7-10 pm

Class of 1967: Sundown Picnic Cruise on the Lady Fenwick Leave from Charter Oak Landing, Hartford Exit 27 off I-91

9 pm

Vintage Movie Seabury 9-17

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9 am-8pm

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Lecture: Maternal Employment and Children's Cognitive Development; An Economist's View Professor Adam Grossberg Economics Department This talk will examine how economists view the family and will discuss recent findings on the relationship between mothers' work and children's cognitive development.

McCook Auditorium Campus Tours Conducted by students Leave from Austin Arts Center Alumnilae Golf Outing With former golf coach John Dunham TBA Transportation leaves from Austin Arts Center at 9:30 am.

11 amNoon

Lecture: The Emerging Conservative Majority on the Supreme Court: A Perspective on Recent Appointments and Cases Professor Adrienne Fulco Political Science Department Reflections on the Clarence Thomas nomination and the Senate hearings, as well as a discussion of recent selected Supreme Court decisions and forthcoming cases.

McCook Auditorium

11:00-am Noon

Lecture: Redefining European Security: The Refugee Crisis in Post-Communist Europe Professor Brigitte Schulz Political Science Department With the collapse of communism, European security concems have suddenly and unexpectedly shifted to a new fear of the East: the fear of economic refugees. We will look at factors of instability and change in post-communist Eastem Europe and how the rich members of the European community are responding to the challenges of the '90s.

Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall

NoonMidnight

Supervised Nursery & Child Care for preschoolers Funston Hall, Ground Floor Lounge

FRIDAY 8-9:30 am

Ferris Athletic Center Please Note: There will be no activities or supervision during the lunch hour, noon to 1 pm.

Tee Off between 10 & 11 am

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TRINITY REUNION Noon5:30pm

3-5 pm

Pony Rides for Children

By Ferris Athletic Center

3-3:45 pm

The Challenge of College Admissions The many factors that play a role in the admissions process Dr. David M. Borus '68 Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall

Noon1:30pm

Class of 1967: Alfresco Luncheon Funston Courtyard by Clement

Noon1:30pm

Buffet Lunch Mather Hall

1-5 pm

Children's All Sports Camp continues Ferris Athletic Center

4-5 pm

Campus Tours Conducted by students Leave from Austin Arts Center

Ask the President President Tom Gerety ""'...-~" McCook Auditorium

6-8 pm

Children's Cookout Cave Patio

6pm

New England Clambake Class Tents on the Quad ~~

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Children's Movie McCook Auditorium

8-9:30 pm

Teenagers' Movie Seabury 9-17

1:30pm

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Lecture: Facing the Unbearable; Hum4n Reaction to Disaster Professor Etzel Carde'iia Psychology Department This talk will review major research projects dealing with disasters such as earthquakes, building collapses, fires etc. As a result of these disasters, it has been shown that victims will temporarily experience dissociative reactions such as feelings that the world and they are not real, that time slows down, that attention narrows, and that memory may be both enhanced and impaired.

McCook Auditorium

1:30-4 pm

Round Robin Tennis Tournament College Courts

2:30-4 pm

Trowbridge Memorial Pool open Ferris Athletic Center

2:353:45 pm

Lecture: An 18th Century Grand Tour Reconstructed: Sites to See in Italy in 1750-1751 Professor Alden Gordon '69 Fine Arts Department Follow the path of a French architecture student in 1750-1751 who kept a notebook on the sites he visited in Italy. Colored slides taken in 1991, 240 years later, follow his tour from the slopes of Vesuvius to the subterranean Roman remains at Herculaneum, from the gardens of Caprarola to the warehouses of Leghorn.

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Hartford Steel Symphony The Quad

9:30pm

Children return to dorms for the evenin Limited supervision provided

SATURDAY

2:453:45 pm

Tour of the New Academic Building Dr. John A Langeland Director of Computing and Communications Systems Designed by noted architect Cesar Pelli, Trinity's new academic building houses the Computer Center, the Math Center, and Engineering and Computer Science. Students will provide demonstrations of computer models.

New Academic Building South Quad

8-9:30 am

Breakfast Mather Hall

Sam 9 am6:30pm

Registration & Room Assignment Austin Arts Center

9 am12:30 pm and 1:30-5 pm

All Sports Camp for Children Ferris Athletic Center Please Note: There will be no activities or supervision during the lunch hour, 12:30-1:30 pm.

9 am-1 am

Supervised Nursery & Child Care for preschoolers Funston Hall, Ground Floor Lounge

9-10:30 am

Trowbridge Memorial Pool open Ferris Athletic Center

9-10 am

Arts & Crafts for Children Ages 5-9 Cave Patio (Older Children: see 10-11 am time slot)

JUNE 11-14, 1992

9-10:15 a

9:1510:15 am

Hatha Yoga Matthew George '85 This is an introductory session in Hatha Yoga, a gentle exercise program: which seeks to replenish rather than deplete the body's natural energies. Consistent training in Yoga increases strength, flexibility, concentration and inner calm. Participants should dress comfortably, and bring a towel and blanket.

Lecture: Investing in the 21st Century Professor Ward Curran '57 Economics Department McCook Auditorium

to all citizens regardless of their ability to afford the cost.

McCook Auditorium 1:30-3:30pm Get the Scoop!

Free ice cream The Quad 2:30-4 pm

Round Robin Tennis Tournament continues College Courts

2:30-4 pm

Trowbridge Memorial Pool open Ferris Athletic Center

2:45-4 pm

Performance: Musical Highlights Professor Gerald Moshell Music Department Goodwin Theater, Austin Arts Center

3-4 pm

Family Softball Game Jessee Field

5-6:30 pm

Gallows Hill Bookstore Reception Featuring published works by Trinity alunmi and Trinity professors.

Gallows Hill Bookstore in Hallden Children's Choice: Pizza or Fried Chicken Cave, Mather Hall

9:45am

Campus Tours Conducted by students Leave from Austin Arts Center

10-11 am

Arts & Crafts for Children Ages 1 0+ Cave Patio

10:15 10:45 am

Class Meetings & Election of Class Officers Locations to be announced

11 am

Annual Reunion Class Parade Assemble on the Long Walk

6 pm

Annual Meeting of the National Alumni Association Greetings by President Gerety Presentation of alumnilae awards and class gifts Ferris Athletic Center, Unit A

6:30pm

Class Photographs: Classes '52, '57, '62, '67, '72 immediately following meeting of the National Alumni Association

7-7:45 pm

12:30 pm

Buffet Luncheon The Quad

7:45-9:30 pm Children's Movie McCook Auditorium

12:45 pm

Carillon Concert

8:30-10 pm

Teenagers' Movie Seabury 9-17

9 pm-1 am

Alumni/ae Dance Cave Patio, Mather Hall

9:30pm

Children return to dorms for the evening Limited supervision provided until 1 am.

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1:30-3:30 pm ''Make a Play in a Day" For children ages 5-12 · · A professional theater troupe, Kit & Kaboodle Productions, will help children to design a set, create costumes and perform a classic children's. tale. Sign up at Registration by noon on Saturday.

Funston Courtyard by Clement 1:30-2:30 pm Lecture: Justice and Healthcare Professor Maurice Wade Philosophy Department Modem medicine has unparalleled power to save and restore health. Professor Wade will address the question of whether or not we are morally required to provide healthcare

Class Receptions & Dinners Individual Class locations to be announced

6:30-7:15pm Class Photographs: Classes '42, '77, '82, '87 and IDP Class Dinner Locations Children's Entertainment: The Magical World of Richard Matt McCook Auditorium ~

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by Trinity Authors living in New Hampshire. Of his last novel, Sword rf the North , Pttblishers Weekly said, "The characterizations are vivid and so is the dialogue ... Delightful."

THE TRANSLATOR

Ward }ttst '57 Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1991,313 pages, 21.95

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The author Newsweek magazine says "has earned a space on the shelf just below Edith Wharton and Henry James" has chosen an emerging new Europe as the setting for his 11th novel. Described as his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, T11e Translator is a taut and timely psychological drama about a man caught between cultures.

Sydney Van Damm is a native of Germany who makes his home in Paris with his American wife. For years they live an urbane existence as expatriates, mere spectators of events elsewhere. Then Sydney's skills as a linguist are contracted by an old friend with questionable scruples and vast intelligence connections- and the couple's lives are forever changed.

The Trai1Siator was described by Larry Kart in Chicago Tribttne Books as "an epic novel. .. lt is the likes ofF. Scott Fitzgerald and Milan Kundera that this novel brings to mind ... And if, as one suspects, this is the first novel of]ust's European phase, all of his readers stand to gain."

A former Vietnam correspondent and Washington journalist, Just divides his time between Paris and Martha's Vineyard.

WALLACE STEVENS The Plain Sense ofThings

james Longenbach '81 Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, 342 pages, $39.95 There has been a tendency on the part of some critics to view Wallace Stevens as leading a "double" life- writer of elegant poetry, and lawyer and insurance executive.

This is a deceptive notion, argues Longenbach in his third work of nonfiction.

Stevens's "ordinary" life, as the poet liked to describe it, was one in which all elements -from the everyday to the poetic -coalesced. Further, Longenbach convincingly portrays the impact of the major historical events of the poet's lifetime- the Great Depression and two World Wars- on his work. Stevens's poetry was often inspired by these events, Longenbach says, showing how the m~or achievements of his career came around those events. In addition, the author examines Stevens's two periods of poetic silence, studying the critical aspects of his life that were not exclusively poetic.

Longenbach is associate professor of English at the University of Rochester and au-

EMMA: A Story of Need

&th A. Miller '78 University Editions, Inc., (Huntington, W.V.), 1992, 211 pages, $10, plus $2 postage This first novel is the story of a woman's fall into mental illness and her daughter's struggle to cope with the pain such illness brings to a family. Sylvia is a nurturing mother until a drunk driver steals her place in her family's world. Crippled and bitter, she retreats to her bedroom and her medication.

She begins a descent into dru g addiction and mental illness, leaving her daughter, Emma, without the love and security she needs.

Emma's is the story of every child growing up with a dysfunctional parent. It tells of Emma's struggle to connect emotionally with her mother, even when that connection brings pain. It also tells of Emma's strength in refusing to allow her parents' failings to become her own.

Author Miller worked in corporate communications before returning to her first love -fiction. thor of Modemist Poetics rf History and Stone Cottage: Potmd, Yeats, and Modemism. In his preface to this work Longenbach writes: "Years ago, the person who first taught me the poetry of Wallace Stevens (and much else besides) asked me a question I could not answer: I offer this book to Hugh Ogden with the hope that in thinking about that question I absorbed some of his own sense of what the value of reading a poet like Stevens might be. ..

MISTER GREY o r the further adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Richard White M'59 Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1992, 249 pages, $18 .95 Written with the same gentle humor that characterized Mark Twain's works, Mister Grey is at once a Western, a romance, a mystery and a very moral tale. Author White's central figure in the book is a straight-shooting honest sheriff in a Wyoming cowboy town in the 1880s. The book is narrated by a young boy who is a fervent admirer of the sheriff.

Novelist Richard White is a schoolteacher

AMERICAN CHAMPIONS A History ofBusiness Success Part 1: 1711-1890

Arthttr G. Sharp M'72 International Information Associates, Morrisville, Penn., 1991,410 pages, -17.95 plus $3.50 shipping In his third book, Sharp writes about these champions in American business: Kenyon Corn Meal, established in 1711; The Hartford Courant, 1764; Dexter Manufacturing, 1767; Huntington's Bookstore, 1835; Procter & Gan1ble, 1837; Aetna Life Insurance, 1853; Atlanta Gas Light, 1856; Laclede Gas, 1857; Adolph Coors, 1873; Elgin-Butler, 1873; Homestake Mining, 1877; Baton Rouge Water Co., 1888; and Louisiana Companies, 1890.

The book combines the history and strategy of some of America's oldest companies in order to help the "younger generation" learn from the experience of those who have been there.

"American Champions is an excellent source for cooperative education students who want to balance work and school careers. It demonstrates ... how路important teamwork is to a company's survival," said Dr. Teresa Howard, director of cooperative education at

Holyoke Community College.

Sharp has written several business texts and hundreds of business and history articles.

BASEBALL'S ALL-TIME GOATS As Chosen by America's T op Sports writers

LIVING IN HOPE A 12-Step Approach for Persons at Risk or Infected with mv

Bob Adams Inc., Holbrook, Mass., 1992, 192 pages, $6.95

Emmell E. Miller '63, M.D. and Cindy Mikluscak-Cooper, R.N. Celestial Arts, Berkeley, Cali£, 1991,319 pages, S12, plus tax, shipping and handling This groundbreaking book combines the familiar 12-Step approach with guided imagery and affinnations - powerful tools for change and self-healing.

The 12-Step approach offers proven methods for coping with serious problems, and is therefore helpful to people with H IV, ARC, and AIDS. Living in Hope was written to: educate about risky behaviors and attitudes; help the reader change behaviors and attitudes in order to fight infection; help those infected better deal with the infection, improve self-care, and discontinue harmful habits; and help develop a positive, accepting, yet "fighting spirit."

Emmett Miller, author of Openi11g Ym1r Inner "I" and Self Imagery, is a physician and psychotherapist specializing in psycho-physiological medicine, wellness, and stress-related disorders. Medical director of the Cancer Support and Education Center in Menlo Park, Cali£, he produces the "STEPS" program for AIDS and ARC patients in San Francisco. Mikluscak- Cooper has worked in patient care and catastrophic illness for over 20 years.

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GOLD IS TRIED BY FIRE Margaret Collins Wehrly '83 Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc., Nashville, Tenn., 1992, 301 pages, $12.95 The title of this historical novel is taken from the quotation by Seneca, the Roman statesman and philosopher: "Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity." The book is taken from the 14-page autobiographical sketch written in 1852 by one ofWehrly's ancestors, a settler of the Niagara frontier.

From the Battle of Saratoga to the completion of the Erie Canal, the events of the period come to life, as Asher Freeman becomes an independent landowner, through persistence, hard work, and sacrifice.

A native ofBuffilo, N.Y., Wehrly lives in Farmington, Conn. In her acknowledgments in the book she thanks Professor Dirk Kuyk, Jr. of Trinity's English department, for "his continuing advice and encouragement."

Peter Weiss '88

Who remembers that Babe Ruth tried to steal second with rwo outs in the ninth inning of the seventh game of the 1926 World Series ... and failed? "Goat" - the tem1 for a baseball pro who makes a big mistake in a crucial situation - is the least desired title in the game; in that situation in 1926, it fit Ruth.

His gaffe is just one of the dozens of misplays, boners and bad moves examined in detail in this book. Other ill-fated players (chosen by a poll of the nation's top sportswriters) include Ted Williams, Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens, and, of course, Bill Buckner -whose misplay of a grounder closed the door on Game 6 of the 1986 W odd Series for the Boston Red Sox. The book also includes the actual rankings from the sportswriters' poll, a poll that answers the burning question: Who was baseball's biggest all-time goat?

Author Weiss is a Boston-based writer and researcher. In his opening acknowledgements

to the book, he thanks Thalia Selz of Trinity's English department for "helping me learn how to write."

BROAD REACH John E. McKelvy, Jr. '60 Pilot Press, Dedham, Mass., 1991, 223 pages "This, then, is the story of a voyage (not a tour) across that ancient constant, the sea, which c01mects all these variables (nations, peoples, ideologies, pasts and presents) that make life interesting," writes John McKelvy.

This book is an account of a 1989-90 circumnavigation of the North Atlantic from New England and return made by him and his wife, Nancy, who did all of the maps and drawings in the book. The voyage was undertaken on Grafin, the McKelvys' Hinckley 48' yawl built in 1969.

The book was written for people who sail and is "somewhat technical," according to its author. It offers information on how to prepare and execute such a voyage, with thoughts on fitting out, choosing crew, planning routes, food, sustaining financial credit in remote ports, and a myriad of other details designed to avoid what McKelvy calls a "Chinese fired.rill" style of cruising.

During the McKelvys' year circumnavigating the North Atlantic, they visited Ireland, Spain, Portugal , Madeira, the Canaries, the Windwards, Leewards, Virgins and Bahamas. Adventures there as well as at sea are all included. McKelvy is a retired history teacher who lives in Dedham, Mass.

DON'T STOP THE MUSIC! WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY? An Autobiography John W. Wardlaw '29 as told to Katherine (Kirkland) Wardlaw Wardlaw Publishers, Raleigh, N.C., 160 pages, $12 plus $2 for postage For 50 years, Jack Wardlaw has been asking everyone he meets, "When is your birthday?" For 68 years he's been playing the banjo for organizations and at hundreds of private parties. Together, these avocations have provided a busy life outside of his insurance business.

In this autobiography, Wardlaw offers his ideas on how to: fulfill one's dreams; be remembered as a unique individual; make a fortune through hard work, perseverance, promotion of one's self and one's ideas; and live past the prescribed Biblical age through a positive outlook.

Wardlaw has also written Inside Secrets of Selling: Find a Need and Fill It; and Top Secrets ofSuccesiful Selling: Thought Plus Action.

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Trinity's hockey team, which has won four ECAC North/South Titles in the past six seasons, failed to secure its eighth consecutive winning season when the team dropped its final game of the 1991- 1992 season to Suffolk by the score of 4-2.

H ead Coach john Dunham 's squad embarked on an ambitious schedule this season, moving up to the East Division of the ECAC East/West. The East/ West Division is the equivalent of Division II. Trinity posted a 4-9-2 record in East/West play, which was 13th best out of 16 teams. The Bantams won six of their first seven, including the team's sixth McCabe T oumament Championship in the eight-year history of the tournament with a 6-3 win over Tufts and 5-0 blanking of Amherst. In the second semester, Trinity managed to win only four games while experiencing an eight-game (0-5-3) winless streak.

Lost in the myriad of ties and losses during that stretch was the courageous play of senior netrninder Jeff Tuck. Tuck, an all-star goaltender, faced an average of 34 shots per game, stopping .906 percent of them. "Having a veteran goaltender with outstanding skills was crucial to our adjustment to the ECAC East play," explains Dunham. 'j eff's ability to make the big save gave our younger players a chance to gain a great deal of confidence as the season progressed." Hints of that confidence showed in the team's final three home games of the year when Trinity defeated Connecticut College, 7-2 , lona, 7-2, and lost a spirited 6-4 game to the University of Connecticut, the Eastern Division regular season champion.

Trinity entered the East!West with a solid core of veteran defensemen, but much of the offense was provided by underclassmen. Seven of the team's top ten scorers were either sophomores or freshmen, including Todd Carroll '95, who led the team in scoring with 11 goals and 11 assists. Back on the blueline, senior Scott Leddy, the ECAC South Player-of-the-Year last season,

Mike Allen '92 , a four-year letter-winner, established a new school record for three-point baskets in a career with 143.

was the team's top scoring defenseman and the team's top plus/minus man for the third season in a row.

Men's Basketball (13-8) Despite being overlooked for ilie ECAC Tournament this season, Trinity's ability to overcome adversity made the

1991 -1 992 campaign quite a success story.

The first thunderbolt hurled at the team occurred after the team was off to a 5-1 start when starting center Pieter van der H eide, a junior, was sidelined for the next four gan1es with a fractured thumb just prior to the Liberty Bank Classic.

Forced to juggle his lineup in the open-

ing game against Connecticut College, Head Coach Stan Ogrodnik moved sophomore David Jones over to center, and junior Mark O'Day stepped into Jones' vacant starting forward spot. Jones, who led the team in scoring (14.9 ppg) and rebounding (7 .9 rpg), responded with 19 points and 13 rebounds en route to a 71-47 victory, and O'Day scored 11 points. In the championship game against Eastern Connecticut, Jones continued his brilliant play, scoring 16 points and collecting 10 rebounds in a 68-58 win.

"David has became the foundation of our team," says Ogrodnik. "He continues to expand his game all of the time, and as a sophomore he's definitely become our go-to guy when we need a key basket." Jones was named the Tournament's Most Valuable Player, and Trinity captured its sixth Liberty Bank Title in the ten-year history of the tournament. Senior Co-Captain Dennis McCoy, who was second on the team in scoring on the year with 12.7 ppg, was also named to the all- tournament squad.

After winning four of their next seven games for an 11-4 record, the Bantams suffered their second major setback when Jones fell sick with strep throat on the eve of an important ten-day stretch in which the team was scheduled to play Williams, Manhattanville, and Amherst.

Forwards Greg Haffuer, a sophomore, and Doug Rausch, a junior, came off the bench to score their season highs,. but it was not enough as Trinity lost all three and promptly fell out of playoff contention.

In the season finale against Vassar, senior co- captain Mike Allen went out with a bang as he sank six three- pointers for a game-high 21 points in a 97-41 win. Allen's three-pointers raised his school record for three-point baskets in a career to 143.

Women 's Basketball (14-9) Trinity's 14-9 record marked the fourth time that' the Bantams have won 13 or more games in Head Coach Maureen Pine's five-year tenure. Sparked

by Amy Chiodo, the team's lone senior and captain who led the team in scoring

(12.3 ppg) and rebounding (8.4 rpg), Trinity was one of the top teams in New England all season. Its exclusion from the ECAC Tournament came as bit of a surprise considering Trinity's record against the playoffbound teams.

Trinity posted an 8-7 record through the team's first fifteen games with big wins over Wesleyan, WPI and Connecticut College. The Bantams made a push for the playoffS by winning six of their last eight games, including an upset victory over Tufts. One of the team's two losses in that stretch run, a 61-62 defeat at Babson, was one of the team's best performances. Trinity battled Babson, which was 23-3 on the year, right down to the wire with neither team taking a commanding lead. With Trinity trailing by four points in the final minute of action, junior guard Lisa O'Connell was fouled while attempting a three-point shot.

O'Connell, who was ranked 12th in the nation in free throw shooting, sunk all three attempts. Babson turned the ball over on their next possession, but Trinity was called for a traveling violation before they could get off the last shot. Babson simply ran out the clock to escape with the win.

With the playoffS a question mark going into the final game of the season, the Bantams took the floor at Ray Oosting Gymnasium against Smith with two priorities in mind: Win the game, and feed Amy Chiodo, who entered the game needing to score 20 points to become only the fourth woman to score 1,000 points in a career. She notched her 18th point with roughly four minutes remaining, but then disaster struck. After watching her jump shot from the middle of the paint hit the back rim and bounce out, Chiodo committed her fifth foul while going for the rebound, and was forced to sit down with 998 points in her career. "It was a brief disappointment," says Coach Pine, "but the fact she didn't reach 1,000 points doesn't tarnish all that she has achieved in her career." Supporting that sentiment, Chiodo will graduate having established records in most games played (89), most blocked shots in a game (8), a season (63), and in a career (159) .

Capping a sensational freshman season, Tucker MacLean became the first Trinity wrestler to win the New England Championship since Joe Adam '86.

Wrestling (5-9-1) Sporting new warm-ups and a full roster, Trinity posted its best record in many years and earned an eighth-place finish in the New England Championships.

At the championships, freshman Tucker MacLean, who was 13-2 in dual meets, became the school's first New England Champion since Joe Adam '86. 路MacLean won the tournament by pinning Jason Ashburn of Coast Guard in the title bout of the 177 lb. class at the 6:16 mark. What makes MacLean's achievement so noteworthy is that he had -lost to Ashburn earlier in the tournament by a 12-3 score. But, MacLean marched his way back to Ashburn via the loser's bracket, scoring three wins.

MacLean's victory earned him an automatic berth in the National Championships where he had a good tournament, but did not earn All-American Honors.

MacLean was named Co-Rookie of the Year by the New England Coaches Association, but he was not the only Trinity wrestler to disringuish himself at the tournament.

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Another highlight of the tournament was the presentation of the 1991-1992 Sportsmanship Award to H ead Coach Sebastian Amato. The award, which is voted on by the N ew England R eferees Association, is given to the team which exhibited the best sportsmanship throughout the season.

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Senior captain David Shapiro, who has established four school records in his illustrious career, once again proved to be the backbone of this season's 4-5 squad. Shapiro secured multiple victories in five meets during the regular season and broke three school records at the New England Championships, helping Trinity to finish 12th out of a 21-team field. Shapiro set the new times in the 200 backstroke (1 :59.59), the 200 breaststroke (2:12.02) and the 200 individual medley (2:00.94). Two other Trinity swimmers breaking school records for Head Coach Chet McPhee at the championships were junior Robert Lenois and sophomore John Donohue. Lenois swam the 50 breaststroke in 28.19 and Donahue set a new mark (58:27) in the 100 individual medley.

Women's Swimming (6-3) Trinity's young squad enjoyed a fine season, winning six of nine meets and finishing 19th out of the 28 teams invited to the New England Chan1pionships. The team's nucleus consisted of three sophomores: Stephanie Cope, Kim Aquilar, N atascha Kontny, and two freshmen: Sarah Stuckey and Cheryl Buchanan. Aquilar, who captured multiple first-place finishes in four meets during the year, established a new Trinity mark in the 200 butterfly at the championships. H er time of2:15.52 broke her old mark of2:18.60 which she set last season. Cope continued to shine in the butterfly and freestyle events for Head Coach Chet McPhee after her sensational freshman season. Kontny and

Joe Porto '93 forces a Williams attacker wide.

Buchanan were impressive in the short freestyle events while Stuckey posted top times in the breaststroke events.

Women 's Squash (10-3) By posting a 10-3 regular season mark, the women's program secured its 12th consecutive winning season, which is currently iliird best in school history, and for the second consecutive season, the women finished fourth at the Howe Cup. The Bantams trailed only Ivy powers Yale, Harvard and Princeton.

The Bantams opened the Howe Cup tournament with a 9-0 shutout victory over Williams. The Bantams next defeated Franklin & Marshall by a 7-2 score on the strength of their depth. While Trinity's defeats came in the top two lad-

der positions, the number three through nine players were victorious. In the next three matches versus Yale, Harvard and _Princeton, Trinity was blanked 9-0.

Head Coach Wendy Bartlett was extremely pleased with her tean1's results, but she is still looking to the future.

"Our results show that our program is definitely one of the best among the small colleges in the country," says Bartlett, "but we still have some room for improvement if we plan on closing the gap with the Y ales and Princetons in our league."

Top performances were abundant this season as only one player owned a losing record and four players won ten or more matches. Freshman Kate Whitmore, who also plays tennis in the fall, proved to be the biggest surprise of the season, win-

ning eight of eleven matches in the number- two position.

Men's Squash (12-4) The men's team won the last seven matches of the regular season to improve its record to 12-4, earning the squad a berth in the First Division Championships. Trinity finished in seventh place at the championship and was ranked sixth in the nation overall. It marked the first time the team has finished as one of the top seven teams in the nation since the Bantams claimed the number-two ranking in the 1984-1985 season.

Much of the team's success can be attributed to the team's talent in all of the nine ladder positions for Head Coach John Anz. "Our lineup was a beautiful combination ofboth strength and depth ," explains Anz. "Whereas other teams may have been stronger at the top, our depth proved to be the difference in close matches. In other cases, the teams matched up depth wise, but our talent at the top was too much for them." Examples of this were the two 5-4 victories on the year for Trinity against Amherst and Franklin & Marshall. At Franklin & Marshall, Trinity's top five players were victorious while at Amherst, players from five-to-nine secured wins for Trinity.

Junior Justin McCarthy was 9-3 on the year in the highly competitive numberone ladder position. The big winner on the squad was Chris Felley, who won 13 of 16 matches at the number-eight position.

Trinity's only losses on the year came against Harvard, Yale, Navy and Princeton. Some ofTrinity's most impressive triumphs on the year were against Comell, Dartmouth, Williams and Amherst.

SPRING OUTLOOKS Baseball Head Coach: Bill Decker (2nd year) 1991 Record: 14- 9 Returning Letterwinners: 10 The Bantams boast one of their strongest pitching staffs in recent years as three of

the squad's top four hurlers retum including junior Jim Thomforde, who is considered a top pro-prospect by many scouts. Thomforde is the ace ofTrinity's staff after tossing five complete-game victories including one no-hitter and two one- hitters in his sophomore campaign.

Joining Thomforde to form the nucleus of the pitching staff are fellow junior Lloyd Nemerever and sophomore Jeff Owens.

Co-Captain Paul Broderick, a junior who hit .338, anchors the infield from his third base position. Trinity is counting on junior JeffDevanney to patrol centerfield after hitting .320 and driving in 14 runs last season. If the Bantams' pitching staff stays healthy, Trinity should be well-armed to battle for an ECAC playoffberth. "We have some outstanding young people in our program," says Decker. "The competition within the squad will bring out the best in our players and make us a better team in the long run."

Women 's Softball Co-Head Coaches: Dick Ellis, Ron Peter (2nd year) 1991 Record: 8-6, NESCAC Finalists Returning Letterwinners: 8 Trinity's ace pitcher, Julie Roy, retums to guide the Bantams again this season on the hill. Roy, a junior, hurled 20 strikeouts last season en route to recording a 2.72 ERA. In just her first two seasons in which Roy has started 27 of29 games, the righthander owns a career mark of21-6 and a 1.82 ERA. Jodi Falcigno, a junior who was the team's top hitter with a .408 average, tends the hot comer for Trinity. Falcigno enjoyed a fantastic sophomore campaign as the speedy leadoff hitter led the team in hitting, on-base percentage (.455), runs scored (16), and runs batted in (12). Junior Kathy Moynagh is the other returning starter at second base. In the outfield, senior Captain Maureen Strickland roams left field. For the Bantams to have a successful season, they must produce more runs this season after leaving 92 runners on base in just 14 games in 1991. IfTrinity can find a way to bring more runners

around the basepaths, the Bantams should be able to stretch their playoff run to seven consecutive seasons.

Men's Lacrosse Head Coach: Mike Darr (14th year) 1991 Record: 4-7 Returning Letterwinners: 22 The Bantams have more talent, experience, and depth than they have had in many years as 22 of24 varsity lettermen retum to the team. Trinity is looking to senior-sniper Ryan Martin, who notched 33 goals last season and is presently third in all-time scoring with 145 career points. In the midfield, co-captain Jeff Hagopian headlines a group of veteran performers including senior Tad Hazelton, who was the team's thirdleading-goal-scorer. Senior co- captain Matt Woods, an excellent all- around player, is the catalyst of Trinity's aggressive defensive unit. Senior goaltender Jon Rotenstreich, a three-year starter, is looking to establish himself as one of the top goaltenders in the league. "We have a host of very talented players corning back and most of them have playoff experience," says Darr. "We know what it takes to eam an ECAC playoff spot.

Now, it is up to us to go out and play up to our potential."

Women 's Lacrosse H ead Coach: Robin Sheppard (18th year) 1991 Record: 9-4, ECAC Semifinalist Returning Letterwinners: 9 Captain Margot Ring, a Co-Captain on the field hockey squad, coordinated the Bantams' offense from her attack wing position this season. Joining Ring in the midfield are juniors Lindsey Davison and Sarah Hammond together with sophomore Braxton Jones. When Trinity's rnidfielders ch.oose to pass the ball down low, they are looking for juniors Lexi Rice and Grace Cragin. Last season, Rice and Cragin circled the opposing goal in shark-like fashion waiting for an opportunity to strike, and strike they did, combining for 35 and 39 goals, respectively. Juniors Jill Griffin and Kelsey

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are, Amy Loughlin, and Serena Lau. These 3 will form the nucleus of a fast crew. Graf is counting on members of last year's junior varsity team, and the novice women's team to fill in ilie gaps in his varsity boat. "With the talent we have in the two younger teams, we are hoping to having another good year," explains Graf

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Head Coach: Steve Fluhr (2nd year) 1991 Record: 3-7 (HW), S-5 (LW) Returning Letterwinners: HW-5, LW-8 Leading the way for ilie heavyweight eight crew this season will be seniors Drummond Boord,JeffStevens and Cliff Swartz. Joining the trio of seniors are junior letterwinners John Graziadei and Josh Whittemore. While the heavyweight eight posted a 3-7 record, these athletes are eager to pick up where they left off last spring in hopes of rowing a top time at the Dad Vail. After winning a silver medal at the Dad Vail Regatta last season, a young lightweight eight rowed to a S-5 record and a quarterfinal finish at the Dad Vail in 1991. The lightweight eight returns all oflast year's letterwinners, and wiili one year's experience under their shell, ilie lightweights are ready to improve on last year's results. While building a program is a long process, Coach Fluhr is confident that things are already way ahead of schedule.

"The 1992 edition ofTrinity's Men's Crew will be the most competitive in years," says Fluhr, "and the future is even brighter."

Head Coach: Ed Mighten (2nd year) 1991 Record: 4-3 Returning Lettermen: 12 For the second consecutive year, the sprint events look to be the team's strength. Headlining the returnees is junior Josh Bruno, who is the Bantams' most versatile athlete. At the 1991 NESCAC Championships, Bruno captured fourth place finishes in no less than three different events: the long jump (21.6.75"), the 100 meters (11.51), and the 200 meters (22.39) . Joining Bruno in ilie various dashes are juniors John Mullaney, YussufKhan, a co-captain, and Cuong Pho along with sophomores Tim Yates and Carl Marshall. In the field events, junior Adan1 Laput is the key man for Trinity in the shot put, hmer and discus events. The junior tandem of Brian Johnson and John Scalise are the team's top hurlers of the javelin. Trinity was hurt by its lack of athletes to compete in the distance events, but Mighten is hoping that senior co-captain Doug Wetherill and sophomore Clyde EttieneModeste are able to pick up some valuable points here.

Women 's Crew Head Coach: Norm Graf (5th year) 1991 Record: 9-1 Returning Letterwinners: 4 Last season the women finished sixth at ilie Dad Vail Regatta, marking the program's 12th trip to the finals in ilie last 14 years. The women's captain this season is Heather Smith, who was the recipient ofThe Board of Fellows "Outstanding Scholar-Athlete" Award last year. The other returning letter winners

Women's Track Head Coach: Ed Mighten (2nd year) 1991 Record: (0-5) Returning Letterwinners: 7 Junior Jackie Kupa, who was the NESCAC Champion of the shot put event and established a new Trinity record by tossing the shot 35'7.25", leads ilie charge for the Bantams in the weight events. Joining Kupa is sophomore Lisa Michelizza and junior Kim Louder.

Michelizza complemented Kupa in the weight events not only by scoring 66

points in the discus, shot, and hmer events, but also by establishing a new Trinity mark for the hammer with a throw of 112.3 feet.

Juniors Debby Gmons, who won the NESCAC, New England and ECAC Titles in the 10,000 meters last season, and Carrie Pike return as the team's top distance runners. The team's top returning point-scorer, Donna-Marie Campbell, a junior who competed in 25 events and earned 79.75 points, excels in the sprints and the high, long and triple jump events.

Men's Tennis Head Coach: John Anz (2nd year) 1991 Record: 3- 8 Returning Letterwinners: 6 The Bantams are counting on sophomores Ted Lloyd, Winchester Brown, and Bob Wittig to fill the majority of the singles positions this season. John Stone and Bill Dailey provide the Bantams with positive senior leadership on the courts, and two juniors, Adam Stem and Andy Brick, the team's captain and best allaround player, give the team a fom1idable roster. Headlining the Class of 1995 is Jamie Katzman, a nationallyranked high school player from Newport Beach, Calif We have a good gtoup of incoming freshmen this season," explains Coach Anz. "Together with the strong sophomore class, we believe we are close to turning our program around and iliat is very exciting."

Men's Golf Head Coach: Bill Detrick (3rd year) 1991 Record: S-2 Returning Letterwinners: 5 Trinity will be led this season by senior Jeff MacDonald and junior Jay Monal1an.

Monman, who is Trinity's top golfer, won two matches last season wiili scores of79 and 81 and has ilie ability to establish himself as one ofilie top golfers in ilie NESCAC. Bariliolomew Reid, a junior, along wiili sophomores Brian Pitts and Dan Helmick, are talented players who should help Trinity to be one ofilie top teams in ilie NESCAC

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in Washington, D.C., where she met the leadership of the legislative and executive branches and was recognized for her outstanding achievement.

A political science major, Himes is the fifth political science student at Trinity in the past five years to receive honors in the annual contest.

F ive members of the Trinity faculty have been promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure, effective July 1, 1992.

They are: B arbara B en edict ofEnglish; Arthur Feinso d of theater and dance; D an Lloyd ofphilosophy; Ralph M o r elli of engineering and computer science; and Richard Prigodich of chemistry.

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In making the award, Stanley W. Smith, president of the chapter, noted that the chapter's Undergraduate Research Committee had been impressed with Goldschmidt's grant proposal and asked for infonnation on the results of the project.

Under the direction of Professors Edward Caliguri of chemistry and Joseph Bronzino of engineering, Goldschmidt is studying neurochemi-

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A shley S. Himes '93 has been selected a winner in the 1992 national essay contest sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Presidency. Her essay on "The Detrimental Effects of the Media on the Selection of the President, Vice President, and Congress," was judged by the Center's panel ofpresidential scholars to be one of the best in the nation. In March Himes, along with her family, attended the Center's 1992 conference

T he Faculty Research Cornnuttee has announced the award of Faculty Summer Research Grants in 1992 to ten Trinity faculty members.

The faculty members and their research activities are: Kathleen Archer ofbiology, "Studies on the Molecular Structure of an Unusual Chloroplast Mutation;" Daniel Blackburn ofbiology, "Comparative Morphology and Development of the Reptilian Piacenta;" Kathleen Curran of fine arts, "The Influence of the German Romanesque Revival on American Church Architecture;" Cheryl Greenberg ofhistory, "The Politics of Alliance: Blacks and Jews, 1930-1 954;" M. Joshua Karter of theater and dance, "Director of' night, Mother in Moscow and the Assessment of the Cross-Cultural Viability of This Play;" Frank Kirkpatrick of religion, "Using the Concept of a 'Basic Act' in Understanding God's Actions in the World;" Kenneth Lloyd-Jones of modern Ianguages, "Christophorous Longolius's Oralio de laudibus divi Ludovici atque Francorum (Paris: H. Estienne, 1510): a critical edition, with translation and commentary;" David Robbins ofmathematics, "Investigations in the Operator Theory of Banach Bundles;" Michael Sacks of sociology, "Social Stratification and Diverging Republic Politics in Forn1er Soviet Central Asia: A Comparison of Kyrgyzstan and Usbekistan;" and Ronald Thomas of English, "Private Eyes: The Science and Politics of Identity in British and American Detective Fiction."

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The recipient is entitled to one free course at the College. President Tom Gerety, left, and Dr. Edward W . Sloan, Charles H. Northam Professor of History, presented the award to Henry. A biology major, Henry is a graduate of Upper Dublin High School in Fort Washington, Pa., and has been a member of Hillel, the Biology Club, the Trinity College Activities Council at Trinity, as well as a resident assistant this year .

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In an attempt to avoid the doldrums that usually hit hard in March, the Trinity Club network was in full swing!

Our newest area club, the Trinity Club of Atlanta kicked off the month on March 2 when Sm1dy and Karen Lewchik Rose '71 hosted a reception at their home just outside of Atlanta. Trinity guests of honor included President Tom Gerety and jerry Hansen '51 , director of alumni and college relations. The Trinity Atlantans came out in full force and enjoyed a lovely evening, thanks to the hospitality of the Roses.

The Trinity Club of New Ha路 ven revved up its engines on March 3 and welcomed Trustee Robert Stepto '66 as its guest speaker. Thanks to the efforts ofjim Curtin '51, the Quinnipiack Club was the setting for Stepto's update on the fraternity/sorority study. The impressive turnout and lively discussion leads us to believe that the Trinity Club of New Haven is on the rebound!

Members of the Trinity Club of Philadelphia felt the need for a dose of culture this month . On March 9, over 100 alumni, parents and friends of the College gathered at the Forrest Theater to be dazzled by the Broadway hit, Phan.tom of the Opera. Thanks to the planning efforts of the fonner president of the Philadelphia Club, Peter Halpert '80, the evening was a showstopper!

The Trinity Club of Hartford followed Philly's lead and soaked up some culture as well. Deb Dworkin '91, assistant director of alumni relations, rounded up the Hartford crowd for a dinner on campus and then they were off to Meet Me i11 St. Louis at the Bushnell Memorial Hall.

On March 12, Rochester, N.Y. was hit with a major snowstorm ... something new and different! But neither snow, sleet, hail nor rain kept Betsy and Peter Webster '57 from hosting the Trinity Club of Rochester event. The Trinity guest of honor for the evening, Karen Osborne, vice president for college advancement, also braved the snow gusts and arrived in time for an intimate

evening with our Rochester alums.

From snow to ice? That's right ... the Trinity Club of Boston celebrated Hockey Fest '92 on March 14. Bryant McBride '88 gathered a group of diehard ice hockey fans together to go see the ECAC and Hockey East Finals. Hope your team won!

The Trinity Club of Hartford found that luncheon gatherings brightened up their March. A group ofTrinity alumni joined several other college alumni groups for a luncheon gathering at the Wadsworth Atheneum hosted by museum director Patrick McCaughey. In honor of the museum's lSOth anniversary, the group of alumni were treated to a lovely lunch and a lecture on the history of the Wadsworrh Atheneum. A fews weeks later, another group of Hartford alunu1i gathered at the Smith Alumni/Faculty House to speak with Dave Winer, dean of students, regarding the fraternity/sorority study. The alunmi were encouraged to voice their opinions regarding the status of Greek organizations on campus, and all information was then passed along to the trustee committee studying the issue.

Atlanta Baltimore Boston Chicago Detroit Fairfield Hartford Los Angeles New London New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Providence Rochester San Diego San Francisco Seattle Vermont Washington D.C.

To close the month, the Hon. Nathaniel and Alita Reed '55 hosted areception at their home in Jupiter Island, Florida on March 24. President Gerety and Karen Osborne were also on hand to welcome more than 40 alumni and parents and fill them in on the exciting array of initiatives happening back on campus.

The Trinity travelling entourage headed further north and was joined by Jerry Hansen and Eugenie Devine, associate director of alumni relations, in Washington, D.C. on March 31.

Thanks to the hospitality of Rosemary and Stan Marwss '63, the Trinity Club of Washington drew more than 75 alumni and parents from Washington , Maryland and Virginia. They spent a lovely evening learning what was happening at Trinity and with each oilier.

The following evening, the Trinity Club of Philadelphia proved they were just as enthusiastic as the Washington Club. More than 75 alumni and parents gathered at the home of current Trinity parents joan and Wayne Keller.

Thanks to the Kcllers, President Gerety was able to update the Philadelphia alumni in a delightful setting.

Seth Price '79 Ward Classen '82 Parsons Witbeck '82 Parrice Ball-Reed '80 Bruce Rockwell '60 Fred Tobin '57 Marion Hardy '84 Richard Stanson '56 Fran Pugliese '51 Scott Cassie '82 Alex Monaghan '78 Arthur W . Gregg '61 Christine Rhodes '86 Peter Webster '57 Thomas Buchenau '72 Eugenia Erskine Jesberg '81 Tom Robinson '72 Michelle McEtrrick '89 Peter H. Kreisel '61 Stuart H. Kerr '78

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CLASS NOTES Vital Statistics ENGAGEMENTS 1979 JENNIFER J. RUSSELL and Brad A. Benson 1984 THOMAS J. MALONEY III and Kariene N. Koury

1989 LYDIA D. BABBITT and Robert Besescheck,Jan. 11, 1992 1990 COURTNEY H. CIMILLUCA and Bartholomew T. Zanelli , Jr., Dec. 28, 1991 Wallach , Jan.4, 1992

BIRTHS 1968 Mr. and Mrs. JOHN R. THIBODEAU, daughter, Kathryn Helen, Dec. 9, 1991

1988 KIMBERLY A. HOMINSKI and Albert K Lohf, Jr.

1971 Mr. and Mrs. THOMAS M. WEINER, son, Stefan, April 11, 1991

1989 NANCY M. CAMPBELL and William C. Bussey

1974 Ben an d LYNNE BUCHWALD BERNSTEIN , daughter , Esti (Esther) Shulia, Jan. 21, 1991

WEDDINGS 1969 ED HILL and Lisa J. Cappalli, Nov. 17, 1991 1972 ROBERT G. WALKER and Janet E. Lyons, Oct. 26, 1991 1975 JOAN KAUFMAN and Mark Levine, March 23, 1991 1978 JOHN J . MCDONALD and Cheryl A. Parker, Nov. 9, 1991 1983 AMI S. CLYMER and Jonathan D. Maron, Oct. 6, 1991 1984 MICHELLE BURNHAM and Chip Hebert, Oct. 31, 1991 1985 ANDREW C. CARLSON and Karen S. Place, Sept. 28, 1991 SCOTT P. ELSAS and Eileen McBrady, Jan. 26,1991 1986 STEVEN D. DEWOLF and Lisa M. Scata, Dec. 14, 1991 DAVID SCHNADIG and Lori Roth, Sept. 7, 1991 1987 MARTHA B. OPORTO and Anthony F. Salamone, Sept. 20, 1991 1988 EMMY DOUGLIS and Kevin S. Whooley, Nov. 2, 1991 MARIANNE ELDREDGE and John Evenhuis, Sept. 15,1991

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1986 JOSEPH M. REID and JETSY TORRE

1990-1992 SAMUEL POITER and JENNIFER HILLMAN

1986 Tom and MEG PICOTTE MACCLARENCE, daughter , Mairead Patricia, Oct. 5, 1991

1975 Joseph F. Jaja and SHARON J. LASKOWSKI, son, Michael Farid Laskowski Jaja, June 8, 1991 1976 Mr. and Mrs. PAUL SANER, daughter, Jennifer Laura, April 18, 1991 1977 C. BOWDOIN a nd Marjory TRAIN, daughter, Julia Kent, Jan . 10, 1990 and son, Russell Bowdoin, Sept. 27 , 1991 1978 GEOFFREYP. LEONARD a nd Sandy Simmons, daughter, Jordan, March 8, 1991 BREIT and Lisa MACINNES, son , Ian Gordon, Nov. 2, 1991 1978-1981 STUART and ELEANOR WENNER KERR, daughter, Marian Morgan, Aug. 14, 1991 1979 ALLAN A. and Nancy MacDonald SCHMID, son , Henry Alexander, May 16, 1991 1980 Gary and MARLA JO SCHULZ FRIEDMAN, son, Eric Robert, Dec. 25, 1991 MARK and SUSAN GULINO NETSCH, daughter, Karissa Elizabeth, Oct. 1, 1991 Harry A. Ill and LYNN HYATT SCHAEFER, daughter, Sarah Hill , Oct. 7, 1991 1983 Bert and ALISON BENZ CZUCHRA, son, Andrew Garret, May 14, 1991

1984 Philip J. III and AMY WAUGH CURRY, daughter, Sarah Vail, Nov. 27 , 1991

Chri stmas '91 cards informed YOUR SECRETARY that STAN MILLER was still dri~ng and that BISHOP CONNIE GESNER had recovered after long months of ill health.

Praise the Lord!

Stan asks, "Where does the time go?" Well , Stan, remember that time and tide wait for no man - not even for old football heroes like Stan Miller!

And THE REV. WEB BARNEIT '48 writes that he helped his maternal uncle, Connie Gesner, celebrate his 90th birthday on Aug. 30, 1991, traveling a ll the way from Naches, Wash. to Sioux Falls, S.D. to do so. (It must have been some party! I wonder why I wasn't invited. Oh well, I'm afraid to fly, a nyway. )

For 50 years JACK WARDLAW has been asking, "When is your birthday?" of everyone he meets. For 68 years he has been playing the banjo.

Together, they are his avocation for a productive life outside of the insurance business. His book entitled, "Don't Stop the Music! When Is your Birthday?" is tbeautobiographyofthis multifaceted man who has been called "a legend in his time."

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retired.

Class Agent: George A. Mackie Julius Smith, D.M.D. 142 Mohawk Dr. Wes t Hartford, Conn.

06117 We received a note from JOE FONTANA who always stays in touch.

Now retired, he serves as consultant to the C.I.A.C. board and also is boys' basketball and baseball tournament director.

YOUR SECRETARY and wife, Lillian, eschewed Florida this winter to try the Scottsdale, Ariz. area for a change. Quite different from the Northeast, with lovely scenery, mild temps and friendly people.

We're hoping for a great turnout for our 60th Reunion. Please make every attempt to be there, and send any notes you can to the Reporter.

CharlesA. Tucker, M.D. 7 Wintergreen Ln. West Hartford, Conn.

06117 After 43 years of service, BEN SHENKER will retire in June 1992 as the health director for the town of Middletown.

HOFF BENJAMIN and Joan were planning a ~sit to the Galapagos, which is a trip that Ruth a nd I took a few years ago a nd found fascinating .

BILL HARING keeps busy with many acti~ti es at Hilton Head, especially with his golf club and his retirement commu nity.

RAY ROSENFIELD a nd Maureen have moved from Woodstock, Conn. to Longboat Key, Fla. but will keep their Connecticut connection since their son, CHARLES '82, still resides there.

Visited ANDY ONDERDONK at the Hartford Hospital where he was recovering from a bout of the flu complicated by pneumonia.

JOHN KELLY attended the home football games and helped with the scoreboa rd from the friendly confines of the press box. He says t hat he received an early Christmas present in the form of a pacemaker, with good results.

Class Agent: John E . Kelly Robert M. Christensen 66 Centerwood Rd. Newington, Conn.

06111 Sorry to report the passing of BOBBY HOLLINS - Robert L. You probably saw his obituary in the winter Reporter. Bobby was a transfer from Harvard to the Class of '36, after one year there. He left Trinity in late '35. Perhaps some of you fellows remember him. I do not recall ever encountering him, hut, remember, I was a "townie." His daughter mentioned that he was on the golf team and captain and manager of the squash team.

She told us that he had retired in 1981, and that one of his hobbies was raising quail. He then resided in Beaufort, S.C.; quail country? He had a distinguished military record in World War II. Sorry, not very much to report.

Class Agent: Dr. John G. Hanna Michael J. Scenti 226Amherst Wethersfield, Conn.

06109 Attending Homecoming weekend in November were CARL and Helen LINDELL, DR. GENE a nd Marge D'ANGELO , FRAN and Betty FERRUCCI, HARRY and Subby SANDERS and MIKE and Corrine SCENT!. We had an enjoyable lunch

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together and then went to see Trinity annihilate Wesleyan.

Harry Sanders had a disc removed from his back in October. He has been recuperating but no golf until spring.

AttheendofJanuary, YOUR SECRETARY took his winter break and headed for the P .G.A. golf show in Orlando. I then played some golf with my sons in the Melbourne Beach area.

Any news will be greatly appreciated .

Class Age n t : William G. Hull G. Robe rt Schreck 328 Round Cove Rd. Chatham, Mass. 02633

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MIKE BASSFORD and Beth are great travelers, but fi nd time to assist and help out at Trin and Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. They also volunteer for "Meals on Wheels," a volunteer program for the elderly and shut-in which most of us have in our own townships.

I'm sure that most of us are active in some volunteer program helping society. Meals on Wheels is among the most important. Would be interesting to hear about other involvements.

The alu mni office has heard from HENRY HAYDEN who is serving as hospital chaplain at Pilgrim Place in Claremont, Calif. where he is teaching an art class, golfmg and swimming.

Also, ''Travel keeps us busy," he writes.

I'd like to present a new idea for your approval. It occurred to me that we do get interesting information from those who send in their letters and notes to contribute to the Trin Reporter every quarter, but there are not enough of you. Probably we are all still bashful, even after 50 years. I ran through the roster and picked every lOth '39 alumnus and listed him be· low. I'm asking you fellows to send me something for the Reporter. If we get a good response from you we can overwhelm these youngsters recently graduated. We have news to relate that is much more interesting! I know your College buddies would like to know about you and your activities of 50 or more years. I have only one requestplease make your submissions short or type them. My own typing of this re· port to Trinity isn't worth a damn.

If we get activity from you below, I'll select another list next issue. Would appreciate your report sometime in March, or sooner. We start with: BOB BUTLER, JOHN UPHAM, BILL PICKLES, FRAN STOCKWELL, JACK WlLCOX, FRANK HOPE, ART OLSON, LEO GILMAN, SHERMARTIN , MILT BUDIN, GREG GABOURY, VIC HAMILTON. Class Age n t : E tha n F. Bassford Walter E. Borin 30 Ivy Ln. Weth e r sfield, Conn.

06109 ALand Jean HOPKINS, GUS and Peggy ANDRIAN, Dottie BLAND, WALLY BORIN and Audrey LINDNER, TOM and Doris

MCLAUGHLIN, DICK ONDERDONK, STEVE RILEY and Steve Riley, Jr. attended November's Homecoming. As always, we were welcomed and treated royally by the College, and we took warm delight in the strong victory by the Trinity football team over archrival Wesleyan on the rather cold and windy Saturday.

President Tom Gerety sent AI a letter dated Nov. 12, 1991 in which he expressed the appreciation of the entire College for the scholarship fund established by our Class. I quote Tom in part, as follows: "Joseph Kobza continues as the Class of 1940 Scholar in his sophomore year. Joe earned a place in Trinity's history as a member of the football team which ended Williams College's 23-game winning streak on the last play of the game, with no time left on the clock! He supplements his financial aid with a campus job in the Library."

According to the registrar's office, Joe prepared at Masuk High School in Monroe, Conn.

Now, won't some of you please heed the plea for news from you?

Class Age n t : St ephe n M. R iley, Esq. Fra nk A. Kelly, J r .

21 F orest Dr .

Ne wington, Conn.

06111 In what is becoming a venerable New Jersey tradition, JACK EWING again won re-election to the New Jersey Senate, this time collecting 68 percent of the votes. He is to be president pro-tem of the Senate and chairman of the education committee. The president of the Senate was quoted as sayingthat"IfSenatorJack Ewing and his education committee have to camp out in the cafeteria and auditorium of every school in New Jersey to make sure tax money is being spent wisely, they will." So it may be back to school for Jack. He has been a member of the New Jersey legislature, first in the Assembly and then in the Senate, since 1968.

MARTY DESMOND writes that he enjoyed the Reunion last spring. He adds that "50th- it is hard to believe it really happened." Speaking of the Re· union, a fine color photo ofED SMITH's Franklin leading the Class in the alumni parade heads the June page for the 1992 Trinity calendar.

In a recent letter, DON DAY said that BILL OLIVER is quite civicminded. As evidence, he sent a clipping about the installation of officers and directors for the North Indian River County chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons. Bill, who is area coordinator of the AARP, was the installing officer. Don ended his letter by sayingthat"Tay and I will have blue fish for supper (caught by LOU BUCK)."

Class Agent: Donald J. Day

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REUNION

J ohn R. Barber 4316 Chambers Lake Dr .

Lacey, Wash.

98503-3176

THE BIG FIFTIETH REUNION is

hopefully a Number One topic for you this spring. We, the committee volunteers, hope we've succeeded in sharing with you classmates our enthusiasm for this event. The goal is, of course, to have the maximum number of our classmates, along with wives, family members or whomever, in Hartford this upcoming June 11 through 14.

With only about 100 of us in the Class, our challenge has been to tell you what a wonderful opportunity we have to be together once again. To all ofyou who've said "yes," - get ready for lots of fun and reminiscing. Spread your enthusiasm to the still undecided!

Don't you agree that the College gave us a great start into the real world back there in wartime 1942?

Keeping in mind that Trinity in effect subsidizes each student, the College makes an extra effort for us reunion classes, more especially the Fiftieth, to make a super contribution to this year's alumni fund.

Fear not, the Reunion planners have learned by experience and knowhow to throw a fantastic weekend.

They've got activities (and inactivities) to please everyone. (Our septuagenarian status is well understood.) I still remember, for example, some of the amusing and thought-provoking lectures and programs they organized for us in 1987. In short, this Bantam Vacation will be a combination of sociability, nostalgia, and maybe a bit of an ego trip as we emerge as the 1992 special honors class. See you in June.

GEORGE JACOBSEN of Arizona is planning on the Reunion. He reports having seen DR. WALTER "GUS" ANDERSON at a wedding last year.

MIKE ZACCARIA, the San Antonio impresario, hopes to have his upcoming improvement plans for the Cameo theater here under way so he, too, will make it to Hartford . Another Texan, KEN ALBRECHT, told me via amateur radio that he, too, will be aboard.

(Wives or close friends and, frequently, families will be accompanying in most cases. All are most welcome.)

DR. JOHN CHURCHILL described a personal victory of last December: "I just got back from Chicago where I gave expert witness testimony in a big lawsuit in defense of (an) insurance company. I was harassed subtly by the plaintiff lawyers. Such things as haven't there been major advances in neurology in recent years?

To which I said, no, we have made haste slowly and haven't yet corrected any major disease since antibiotics came about in the late '30s. Ask any neurological patient! I added, with research activity in process, I hoped matters would improve. He also asked whether I was an expert in neurology.

I said it didn't matter what I thought; he should decide that after the trial.

"Then the battle began; it was great! He threw curved balls, and I got some strikes and fouls. But there were home runs. The judge chewed him out several times too. When I left he looked ashen and was staring in space. I blew his case out of the water .. ."

John reported less success with his new "user friendly" computer, though.

Said he, "This machine is irascible, stupid and stubborn as a mule but I am whipping it into shape!"

How many remember President

Remsen B. Ogilby's homily to us freshmen in 1938: "A Trinity man is at his best in times of stress and strain"? I'm betting that Dr. John will triumph over the computer, as well, in the end.

Well, I'm low on personal notes this time. Fellows, I'd appreciate receiving, prior to April20, any odds and ends you might have for my final Reporter column. The edition should be out shortly before the Reunion.

A proud turnout from the Class of 1942, Trinity's finest, is in the works.

Let's be visible on campus this June!

Class Age n t: Charles F. J ohnson II Reunion Chairs: Don Viering Jack Barber J ohn L. Bonee, Esq. One State St. H artfor d , Conn. 06103 BOB WELTON, retired vice president and head of one of the trust divisions of Connecticut National Bank, former resident of Saybrook, Conn. and now of Englewood, Fla., and his wife, Barbara, sister ofJACKWlLCOX '39, had an interesting experience while driving on Interstate 41 on Florida's west coast. Informed sources have it a herd of camels and horses escaped from the Ringling Brothers Circus Compound, blocking traffic for several hours. Bob and Barbara were in that traffic and should have some interest· ing "camel stories" for us at the next Class reunion.

BOB GUNSHANAN. The Class mourns Bob's death which occurred on Thursday,Jan. 2, 1992 (seelnMemory ).

Bob was a Navy veteran of World War li and had been retired after 40 years with U .S. Electrical Motors. Bob and his wife, Irene, lived in Suffield where he was past president of the Suffield Historical Society, past chairman of the Suffield Police Commission and was active in other community affairs.

The deep sympathy of the Class of 1943 goes out to Bob's wife, Irene, his three daughters and his four grandchildren. Irene's address is 541 North Main Street, Suffield, Conn. 06073.

Class Agen t: Carlos A R ichar d son , J r.

Elliott K. Stein 215 Gibbs Ave. Newport, R.I. 02840 Your Class of 1944 officers have been meeting to discuss plans for our 50th Reunion, tentatively setforJune 10-13, 1994. Under Class President HARRY GOSSLING, we discussed a host of Reunion issues Nov. 9 at the new Smith House on the Trinity Col· lege campus. Present were Dr .

Gossling, DR. ROGER CONANT, MARK TENNEY, BILL PEELLE, ROBERT TOLAND , RICHARD HASTINGS, DR. ARTHUR CHAMBERS and YOUR SECRETARY. At our suggestion, the College development office listed Class gift proposals for our 1994 Reunion. These included a Class of 1944 scholarship

fund, a book fund that would benefit the College's main library and/or the Watkinson Library housed on our campus, a fund to support the educational goals of a specific department, and a fund to enhance and maintain a specific department, and a fund to enhance and maintain a specific campus area.

Art proposed a plan to provide reunion pictures to Class members, with funds received going to the annual giving alumni fund. Details will be reported in the future. Art is the official Class photographer.

Class treasurer Bob proposed a Class gift plan based on a successful program carried out by his reunion class at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pa. More later on Class of 1944 ideas.

Let's hear from you classmates on your thoughts. Meanwhile, your Class officers will have met again on Jan. 25 to discuss Reunion ideas.

Just received a card from AL EULIANO '43, who is living in Keene, N.H., which AI describes as "God's country." I hadn't heard from AI since we both went our separate ways during World War II, when our Class was scattered in the various branches of the armed services. I recall that AI, as a student at Trinity, was also actively involved then in Democratic state politics.

In keeping with our belief that the secret to a satisfying retirement is to stay busy, Your Secretary and wife, Josephine, remain active in a variety of things. Again, we attended our annual reunion of Company G, 335th Regiment, 84th Infantry Division in Greer's Ferry, Ark. Our chief claim to fame, apart from our involvement in the Battle of the Bulge and the capture of Hanover, was that our company's membership included one Henry Kissinger.

During 1991, we also attended meetings of the Ocean State (Rhode Island) chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the national journalism society; and the annual convention of the New England Society of Newspaper Editors in Williamstown, Mass. The good thing about attending these professional events after retirement is that we no longer have to write reports that wind up in a publisher's desk drawer. We can fully enjoy the convention talks and the company of former colleagues.

By the way, the NESNE convention featured lectures by a number of heavy hitters including Harrison Salisbury, the expert on the late Soviet Union, Osborn Elliott and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Elliott, the retired editor of Newsweek and dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, is also a former deputy mayor of New York City. Heiscurrentlyorganizinga march on Washington, D.C. for this coming April on behalf of America's cities, which he finds low on the nation's government priority list.

I hope this report finds you all in good health and wish you a happy New Year. Keep writing.

I also want to thank Harry, Roger, Mark, Bill and Bob for their valued assistance in helping us Class agents reach our alumni fund goals

in 1991-92.

Class Agents: John T. Fink Walter H. Ghent Richard C. Hastings, Jr. Elliott K. Stein

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Mark W. Levy, Esq. 290 North Quaker Ln. West Hartford, Conn.

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PAUL CLARK '45 writes that he had a nice reunion last May with HARRY BRACKEN '49 and his wife, Elly, at their home in Holland. Harry has recently retired from the philosophy department at McGill University, but, according to Paul, is still "very philosophical in his discourse."

LOUIS FELDMAN '46 notes that his most recent articles are: "Some Observations on the Name of Palestine," Hebrew Union College Annual 61 (1990) 1-23; "Nodet's New Edition of Josephus' Antiquities," Journal for the Study of Judaism 22 (1991) 88113; "The Enigma of Horace's Thirtieth Sabbath," Scripta Classica lsraelica 10 (1989-90) 87-112; and "Abba Kolon and the Founding of Rome," Jewish Quarterly Review 81 (1990-91) 449-482.

MERRITT JOHNQUEST '47 sends news of his sons. Harry II is planning to sail his 30-foot sloop to New Zealand. He recently completed the first leg - Cleveland, Ohio to Savannah, Ga. Son, Gilbert, is an artist in Los Angeles and also works on film sets. He has a screen credit for "Barton Fink" which won the Best Film Award at the '9 1 Cannes Festival.

The 1989 edition of"Official Opinions of the Attorney General" is dedicated to BARNEY LAPP '47, who served Connecticut as an assistant attorney general for 20 years. When he retired in 1989, he was in charge of the special litigation department.

Class Agents: Siegbert Kaufmann David J. Kazarian, Esq. Andrew W. Milligan Irving J. Poliner, M.D. The Rt. Rev. E. Otis Charles 4 Berkeley St. Cambridge, Mass.

02138 WEB BARNETT, enjoying life in Naches, Wash., helped celebrate the 90th birthday of his maternal uncle'CONNIE' GESNER '23, retired Bishop of South Dakota-in Sioux Falls last August.

If you're passing along the intercostal waterway, keep your eyes open for BRUCE NICHOLSON sitting on his veranda overlooking Winyah Bay in historic Georgetown, S.C. He may even favor you with a tune on his harmonica. Oh, the life of retirement.

Class Agent: Donald J. O'Hare

Charles I. Tenney,CLU Charles I. Tenney & Assoc.

6 Bryn Mawr Ave. Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010 Janet Cotton wrote us the sad news that DUD COTTON passed away on Oct. 12, 1991 from lung cancer (his obituary appeared in the winter Reporter). He will be missed by all '49ers, and we extend our sympathy to his family.

As for more pleasant news, RON URQUHART reports he completed his seventh year as campaign director for various Democratic candidates in New Jersey. His election scoreboard: one victory, six defeats, and 1988 was his last win. Ron says h,e won't give up, as he remembers Professor George Cooper's lesson that the most important thing in the political process is respect for the democratic system. Professor Tenney says, "Change parties!"

Ho! Ho! Go get 'em, Ron. DON PRIGGE is still active in the Swamp Fox Players, the local theater group in Georgetown, S.C. Their latest show was Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol," and The Sun News of Myrtle Beach stated that he was the star of the show and well suited for the part with his white hair and beard.

Don, we expect you and SHERMAN BEATTIE to put on a show for us at our 45th, y'all hear? I guess it is all right to mention that Don ran into BRUCE NICHOLSON '48, who retired from California and is building a house on the bay in Georgetown. He also visited retired bishop, BILL WEINHAUER '48, in Sumter, S.C. (still living in Ashville, N.C. ), and BILL ROBINSON '50, retired to Frippe Island near Beaufort, S.C. Trust I won't be drummed out of the Class Secretary Union for overstepping my bounds.

DICK SHERMAN, one of the first of our class to "retire," writes that he keeps busy in Falmouth on Cape Cod, attending Steamship Authority monthly meetings, Chamber of Commerce breakfast meetings, traveling between the Cape and the Vineyard to check his vast real estate holdings, volunteering weekly at the Falmouth Hospital, playing golf an average of once a week, and collecting several hundred pictures of old steamships that ran between Nantucket, the Vineyard and the mainland. Retired?

Sounds like he just changed careers.

His advice to us is to retire early enough, change your way of life and enjoy. Thanks, Dick. I plan to do just that when I'm 90. Let's hear from you old timers.

Class Agent: John F. Phelan Robert Tansill 270White0akRidgeRd. Short Hills, N.J. 07078 DAN LOHNES writes from Isle of Palms, S.C. that he retired from teaching and coaching last June. He and Doria are having a house built in Ladson, S.C. The Farley Co. of Hartford has named BERNARD F. WILBUR real estate counselor.

We are saddened by the reported

demiseoftwoclassmates, JOE REKAS and STUART HOLDEN. Full obituaries are carried in this issue.

Class Agents: Robert M. Blum, Esq. John G. Grill, Jr.

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If you haven't sent your reservations for Reunion -June 11-14, do so immediately! We':ceanticipating a funfilled weekend, with lots of activities as well as time for reminiscing.

Class Agents: Douglas S. Ormerod Nicholas J. Christakos William M. Vibert Reunion Chairs: Bob Hunter Dave Smith Paul A. Mortell 757B Quinnipiac Ln. Stratford, Conn.

06497-8339 JACK NORTH has been named chairman of the Connecticut State Easter Seal Society. Jack, an advertising executive, said he hopes to use his experience in public relations and advertising "to increase the visibility of Connecticut Easter Seals, especially its Hemlocks Recreation Center."

EDWARD LORENSON is chairman and president of the Bristol (Conn.) Savings Bank.

Class Agents: Peter B. Clifford, D.D.S. Richard T. Lyford, Jr. Joseph B. Wollenberger, Esq. Theodore T. Tansi 29 Wood Duck Ln. Tariffville, Conn. 06081 During the recent Persian Gulf War, BERT ENGELHARDT served in Turkey and Saudi Arabia as an Arabic language interpreter and translator.

In June, MICHAEL PORTO will retire after years of teaching math at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn.

Class Agent: Blair J. V. Wormer Bruce N. Macdonald 1116 Weed St. New Canaan, Conn.

06840 JERRY PAULEY called around Christmas to bring me up to date on his artistic daughter, Lynn, now doing illustrations for the Metro section of The New York Times a nd studying for a master's at the School of Visual Arts.

Jerry says his furniture business is modestly improved from 1991 and that dealers have been operating with little or no inventory.

DON SCOTT, at the other end of the East Coast (Naples, Fla.), reports a very good business year for 1991. Don is an investment counselor for Paine Webber. Don and his wife, Gale, had their first grandchild, Meredith , recently and vacationed in both Seattle,

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Director leaves his mark on Nook Farm Van Why'SO was instrumental in restoration Bv CoNSTANCE NEYER The Hariford Courant StaffWriter

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I n 1955, Joseph S. Van Why had his first view ofNook Fam1, Hartford's celebrated 19th-century literary colony.

And it wasn't pretty.

The former home of author Harriet Beecher Stowe was a "mishmash. " When he entered the home, there were books stacked to the ceiling in shelves and such mixtures as a precious 19th-century upright chair next to a cushioned modem chair.

The first floor ofthe Mark Twain house was used as a branch library while the upstairs rooms were rented out as apartments.

"The only room the public could view was the Twains' bedroom with its incredible bed with angels carved on bedposts that their children powdered or pulled off," he said.

The celebrated carriage house was used to parked cars.

Now retiring this week after 35 years as executive director of the Stowe-Day Foundation, Van Why, 64, is pleased that things have changed.

"I look back with a great deal of accomplishment and satisfaction because this Hartford com er could be saved," he said. "You look back at your little worries and problems and they seem so insignificant."

He talked with pride about how he helped restore the 19th-century Stowe house, oversaw the establishment of the Stowe-Day Foundation, supervised the compilation of about 150,000 manuscripts in the underground research library there; helped publish three of Stowe's out- of-print works; and set up Stowe workshops for thousands of Connecticut high school teachers the past 18 years.

And at one time, Van Why even helped run the Mark Twain Memorial in the early 1970s when restoration was being planned for the High Gothic home of the author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. " Van Why has run the nonprofit foundation with a sense of mission.

He got his marching orders from the now-deceased Katherine S. Day, Stowe's grandniece, and the person who largely bankrolled the saving of the Stowe and Twain houses for the public.

Joseph Van Why '50

She was instrumental in the establishment of the Mark Twain Memorial - which oversees the Twain house; the Stowe-Day Foundation; and the Science Museum of Connecticut in West Hartford.

Van Why vividly remembers going to the Stowe house for his first encounter with " Miss Day" in 1955 for a possible summer job.

"She set up 'high tea,' "he smiled. "We had finger sandwiches, not crumpets, on a tray inlaid with marble and it had a little alcohol lamp under the kettle with little balls of tea used, of course."

Van Why, who was then teaching at Cushing Academy in Ashburnlum, Mass. , had been recommended to categorize her manuscripts through a mutual friend.

Van Why then had a bachelor's degree from Trinity College and a master's degree in the classics from Brown University.

But Van Why cringed at that tea patty because he feared Day wouldn't hire him because he didn't have any degrees in library science.

Van Why said, however, that his educational background never came up because Day was more interested in his pedigree.

He told her that he was born in Winsted; was Dutch but his mother had some old English blood; and was a descendant from French Huguenots.

Day, who studied painting in Paris, was thrilled with his French Huguenot cOimection and he was hired.

"She wasn't just a dilettante, though," he said. "She was a smart woman and an excellent artist."

Van Why was hired for the summer and he remembers seeing thousands of manuscripts that Day had collected from all her relatives.

Van Why went crazy when he fingered original letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe with writings about such high subjects as

religion and philosophy and mundane concerns, such as her son, running away from the GUimery School in Washington.

One letter really captured his fancy: Mark Twain had apparently come by to visit Stowe and his wife scolded him later for not being dressed up properly with a tie and hat for the visit to "Mrs. Stowe"- as everybody called her.

So, Twain gave his beloved butler George an order to go over to Stowe's house apologetically bearing Twain's hat and tie on a tray. Stowe was tickled by Twain's humor and sent Twain a handwritten note-which the foundation has- saying, "You have discovered that a man can call by installments. It is a discovery! And may be applied to many uses--allow me to thank you for the prolonged pleasure."

Van Why, who has officially been fulltime executive director of the Stowe Day Foundation since 1964, hasn't lost his enthusiasm for his job-even on the eve ofhis retirement.

Last spring, a marathon 18-hour reading of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was undertaken for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of what is now the Stowe-Day Foundation.

Van Why listened to celebrity readers telling the story that President Lincoln said helped spark the Civil War. But, in the middle of the marathon, Van Why got sick and had to be rushed to the hospital. After he was treated, he was feeling better and returned for the end of the reading which finished at quarter to one in the morning.

Van Why gets a lot of accolades for his tenure from his peers.

"It's the end of a tradition," said Wilson H. Faude, executive director of the Old State House in Hartford. "His contributions were extraordinary." " I think his direct link with Katharine Day brought a concept of saving to the area. He made an enormous contribution and has been a leader," said Christopher P. Bickford, executive director of the Connecticut Historical Society.

John Boyer, executive director of the Mark Twain Memorial, said Thursday that he often consults with Van Why on the background of Nook Farm. "He is truly a unique and extraordinary link to that heritage."

Van Why is being succeeded temporarily

by Frank H . Hagaman of Hartford until a national search can be undertaken for a successor.

Van Why lives in Hartford with his wife, Elizabeth Wharton, and two sons. Looking back at his career, he said, "I've certainly enjoyed it." â&#x20AC;˘ Story mtd photo reprinted tvitlt permission ofThc Hartford Courant.

Wash. and Cape Cod during the hot Florida summer months.

I called HOWIE GARTLAND for some news and he told me of a wonderful, boozy party he went to in Washington, D.C. in late June. A Marine Corps buddy was named commandant and Howie and his wife attended the investiture. He says he was on intimate terms with Senator John Glenn and met Vice President Dan Quayle and Secretary Dick Cheney at the party.

He also told me of two other classmates, namely, SKIP BEARDSELL, who has moved from upstate New York to Gettysburg, Pa. a nd is working for a paper company. When I contact Skipper I'll report more in this column.

Also , STEVE MONGILLO, whom Howie had dinner with before Christmas. Steve has put two kids through Trinity, has three grandchildren and remains vice president of Gruntal & Co., a stock brokerage firm in New Haven , Conn.

A news release sent to the alumni office announces that DR. ROBERT BRIGGAMAN, chair ofthe department of dermatology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has been named the Clayton E. Wheeler Jr. Distinguished Professor of Dermatology. The Professorship was established in 1991 by past presidents, trainees and faculty members and is funded for $250,000.

Class Agents: Henry Zachs Peter C. Luquer Gerald E. Pauley, Jr.

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REUNION

Paul A. Cataldo, Esq. c/o Paul A. Cataldo & Assoc.

P.O. Box435 FranJcllin,~ass.02038

The New Year started with some interesting news from MARTY CAINE who called me from Singer Island, Fla., where he has retired. We had a great conversation, and he brought me up to date on all of the boating and fishing and many other interesting things that we didn't see on T.V. that were happening in Palm Beach County. Marty hopes to be back for the Reunion and looks forward to seeing everyone.

I also had correspondence from DUANE WOLCOTI, whose new address is 503 S.E. 12th, #10, Portland, Ore. 97214, where -Duane is keeping the great Northwest alive and well. He hopes to make t he long trek back for our Reunion in June.

Since BROOKS HARLOW has moved to Florida, he has been making contact with other classmates, notably BILL MORRISON and SAM NINESS and has broken bread with them. We hope to have Brooks bring all of the classmates from his neck of the woods back to the Reunion.

I am sure you have all read where HANS BECHERER helped Trinity make the "Elite List" in Business Week.

YOURSECRETARYhas kept busy with College trustee work and meetings, and I can report to you t hat the trustees are working with a number of important issues including the "periodic" review of the status of fraternities, drinking on campus, Trinity's role within the Hartford community and

many other challenging issues. It is my best estimate that action will probably be taken on some of these major issues at the March meeting of the Board of Trustees. If any of you have any thoughts about anything concerning Trinity, please contact me, as I value your thoughts as fellow alumni.

PLEASE COME BACK FOR THE REUNION; FESTIVITIES START WITH A PRIVATE CLASS DINNER ON THURSDAY EVENING AT THE SMITH HOUSE , AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING AS MANY AS POSSIBLE. Class Agent: B. Graeme Frazier

Reunion Chair: Paul Cataldo Shepard M. Scheinberg, Esq. P .O.Box871 1 Bayside Ave. East Quogue, N.Y. 11942 JOSEPHWASSONG,JR. has been chosen by the Rotary Club of Thomaston , Conn. as its distinguished citizen of the year. Joe has been professor of history and anthropology at Mattatuck Comm unity College since 1968 a nd has been a member of the zoning board of appeals since 1978, of which he is now chairman. He has given unselfishly ofhimselfto the community by his service on numerous commissions, boards and committees.

YOUR SECRETARY is a Rotarian as well. I would appreciate hearing from the Class as to who else is a member of Rotary.

BILL ABELES writes that he is the proud grandparent of two grandchildren , Bill Abeles III, and Timothy Abeles, the chi ldren of Beverly and Bill, Jr. of Atlanta, Ga. TIMOTHY P. HORNE has been listed in the Nov. 25, 1991 issue of Business Week among the chief executive officers (CEOs) of America's 1,000 most valuable public corporations. Tim has led the family business, Watts Industries, since 1978. The company, which was established in 1874, is located in North Andover, Mass. , and manufactures protective valving for pipelines.

The alumni office has received word that CHARLES MURRAY of Farmingdale, N.J. has joined Otterbein Homes of Lebanon, Ohio as vice president-designate for development and information.

Class Agents: Robert D. Coykendall William J. Schreiner Richard W. Stockton 121 WhittredgeRd. Summit, N.J. 07901 As I write this, I am looking out my window to a cold and uninviting West 43rd Street cityscape in troubled Manhattan. It's a dark and forbidding late afternoon in January, business continues to be softer than anyone would like and moods are generally dark.

I needed an "upper" so I thought about Trinity and when we would be readingthis ... the winter would begone,

the leaves coming out, the weather warm, and just possibly, the economy strengthening. I am feeling better already!

After my normal flurry (see, I'm still in my winter mood) of phone calls around the country, I got updated on the various nefarious activities of the stalwarts of the Class of '60 and now faced the really difficult part ... reading my scribbled notes and somehow putting them into a comprehensible format to share them with you. With all due apologies for any errors of fact or substance, let me begin to give you my findings. But before I do, let me just once again request that each of you pick up the phone at any time a nd update me on your or any other classmate's doings. I try to contact a few new names for each issue of the Reporter, but I could sure use your help whenever you feel so moved or when the muse strikes.

I hear from the Reporter's Philadelphia bureau's BOB JOHNSON, that BOB SWEET has moved from the Washington, D.C. officesofFirstAmerican Bank to the Maryland office of t he same bank. Bob has been busy and has just finished a year working on the Annual Fund for Catholic University where he served as the Fund's chair. It was only a few year's ago that Bob received his doctorate from that very same place ... serving as he has is a super way to give back a little, I think.

Congratulations, Bob, now you can relax a little. Bob also tells us that his business takes him to the exotic Far East from time to time, so that "rest" ment ioned is probably a few years off yet.

He heard from BOB WRIGHT, now retired from the Air Force and living in Guam, who invites Trinity visitors.

Now, just where in Guam is that?

The really careful readers of The Daily Planet, a.k.a. The New York Times, may have seen a piece on RAY BEECH's office building on the corner of Lexington and 94th St. , where Ray was commended for his vision in restoring a previous eyesore into an attractive addition to the neighborhood.

You've come a long way, Ray, I remember your room.

PETE STRASSER and I had a terrific talk the other day. He, Jane, and their two boys still live in Manhattan and get out to their summer house in Quogue from time to time in the winter and just about all of the time (weekends) during the summer. Both of his boys are at Horace Mann and hopefully will be heading to Trinity. Scott, his older boy, plays #1 on the varsity tennis team and is apparently sensational. Let's get him suited up in Trinity whites, Pete.

While on the tennis lcick, BUD ANDERSON tells me that his older son has made the top 50 in the country and is captain of Babson's team this year . Bud and Ginna continue .to live outside of Boston and are smiling a lot these days as both of their children graduate from college this year - the already mentioned Babson son, and another, at George Washington. Bud is still very active on the various courts and is scheduled to play in the 45 nationals in paddle this February. As most ofyou probably know, Bud moved to Merrill-Lynch a couple of years ago and Ginna is selling real estate. Anyone Boston-bound should take heed .

As I've reported in this space earlier, my wife, Barbara, and I see ED and Carol CIMILLUCA quite often in Summit. Their great news is that daughter, COURTNEY '90, has just gotten married to a really super young man, also from Summit. Son , Dana '92, still has a few great months to go before he has to suffer the slings and arrows of the real world. I'm not worried about either of these lcids.

While on the subject of this festive event, I am happy to report that I saw and had a good chat with SCOTTY WHITELAW at Courtney's reception.

Scotty, a.k.a. ROOney, has been earning his living by getting paid to perform his hobby on Cape Cod ... he's a successful portrait photographer in Orleans , Mass. and has been for some time now.

Moving north a little bit, JOHN RUTLEDGE reports from fashionable Pinckney Street in Boston's Beacon Hill that his new job (not so new any more), with Loomis Sayles continues to go well. As many of you know, John and his wife, Barbara, have a daughter scheduled for the Class of20 11. For you mathematicians in the audience, that means she's now about 2+. The Rutledges seem to like islands, having some land in St. Croix and visiting Hawaii, Barbara's home, fairly regularly.

JIM TURMAN is a hard guy to find in the office, but I finally succeeded.

His job with Harold Beck & Sons has him on the road as often as not. After Trinity, Jim earned his master's in engineering at Drexel and uses the technical background to sell process control mechanisms to heavy industry. That's the exte n t of my knowledge ... ifyou want to know more, you'll have to call Jim. He's in good health and fme spirits although he confesses that he doesn't see a whole lot of classmates these days.

I received a short and moderately humorous note from LEE KALCHEIM (it was actually quite funny, but I don't want it to go to his head), with the obligatory pictures of his twin boys, Gabe and Sam, included. The kids are even younge r than John Rutledge's ... what was in that water in Hartford, anyway? A neat surprise in the picture is that Lee was visiting his mentor, George Nichols, who also looks to be in super shape.

JOHN BASSETI tells me that his two boys are now finished college and gainfully employed. John and Marlene's vacations should already be planned as the boys are in Tucson and Newport Beach. Their youngest, Kim, alas, decided to stay in the West and has entered Colorado State. The Bass's stentorian voice will again be heard lecturing to aspiring English dentists when be once again takes on the arduous duty of traveling to London to teach modern dental techniques.

BUDDY BERGMANN tells me that he and his wife, Hermine, hosted a Trinity party in Seattle that had 45 attendees-including JERE BACHARACH who is the chairman of the department of history at the University of Washington - and there was no hidden agenda, no fund raising, no rushing- just a great Trinity get-together in the Northwest.

I had another chat with KARL KOENIG who this time told mea couple of things that I, and presumably at least a few of you, do not know. First, he has just published a book on what I

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They're trying to cover a need with blankets Bv MICHAEL A. RENSHAW Special to The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Some Doylestown residents have formed Americans for Native Americans, an interfaith, grass-roots effort to aid poor tribes in New Mexico.

The organization was born after a chance meeting between a prominent Doylestown lawyer and an American Indian bishop, both in Rome for the elevation of Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua in June.

"When we were in Rome, we met Bishop Donald Pelotte, the first American Indian bishop in the United States, and he told us that 17 Indians in his diocese froze to death because they didn't have blankets," said William Eastburn lil '56.

Eastburn and his wife, Connie, both Protestants, were moved by the bishop's account and told him that situation would not happen this winter.

Last week 500 blankets, collected from residents of Central Bucks Counry, were sent to Bishop Pelotte with this message: "May God's peace and blessing be with you. We are happy to share this small gift with you. Your friends from Doylestown, Pennsylvania."

And the blanket drive is just the beginning.

According to Eastburn , Dr. Gene Levine of Doylestown Hospital is organizing a team of Bucks Counry doctors who are volunteering to visit reservations in New Mexico next year to bring medical assistance.

Also instrumental in Americans for Native Americans is Msgr.

Raymond Teller, pastor ofDoylestown's Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish, who along with Eastburn is co-chairman of the organization.

"I just couldn't believe the communiry outpouring in response to the blanket drive," Msgr. Teller said.

According to Eastburn, 625 blankets were collected. In addition to those sent to New Mexico, 100 were sent to the St. Vincent DePaul Sociery for homeless people in Philadelphia and 25 were distributed to the needy in Doylestown.

"The purpose of Americans for Native Americans is not to raise money but to provide hands-on help in specific areas of immediate need," Eastburn said.

In February, the organization is planning to send 300 boxes of Valentine candy to Indian children.

Aiding American Indians is not a new experience for the Eastburn family. Their children, Holly and William, have worked as vol unteers with Indian tribes in Arizona, and the Eastburns have hosted 20 American Indians at their Buckingham fann.

The Eastburns developed a friendship with Cardinal Bevilacqua, who holds a law degree, when he addressed the Pennsylvania Bar Association on church-state matters. When Cardinal Bevilacqua was to be elevated, he invited them to join him in Rome.

Upon learning of the Doylestown effort to aid native Americans, Cardinal Bevilacqua wrote to Eastbum to thank him for his efforts.

"I am sure that Bishop Pelotte is most appreciative of your generous assistance to the needy of his diocese. It is gratifying for me to know that this charitable endeavor was a result of the pilgrimage to Rome," the letter read. â&#x20AC;˘ Repn¡wed JPith pemrissio11 of Michael A . Remluw1a11d The Philadelphia Inquirer.

guess is his specialty regarding a new type of photographic process that will be something of a breakthrough idea, particularly suited for fine art photography. Additionally, Karl told me that he has been a professor of psychology at both Stanford and the University of New Mexico before going into his own business.

Still on the academic front, I called IRV LA VALLE in New Orleans. Irv continues to teach at the college and graduate level at the A.B. Freeman School of Business whlch is, of course, the business school of Tulane University. Irv has written a couple of books on his subject, the most recent being titled Theory of Chaos under Uncertainty. We made tentative plans to get together when I'm next in New Orleans. Jazz at Preservation Hall with an old Trinity man will be much more enjoyable than listening alone. Now all I have to do is set up the trip.

Back here in Gotham, I talked with a flu stricken FRED WAGNER who, despite his nasal malaise, said that he continues to work as a financial consultant. Presumably this market, at least through mid-January, will have chased the flu bug faster than any elixir he may have purchased.

AL TREPL is up to some really interesting doings. He owns a company that has found a commercially viable way to produce cheap electrical energy from the movement of the ocean's waves. Hold it sports fans ... doesn't that sound wild. Well, lots of attempts at the production of inexpensive energy have been tried before, but maybe AI is on to something. I sure hope so. AI tells me that he's been working on this concept for a long time now. We're pulling for you, AI , hope it works out. About half of the Class will quit their jobs and come out west to work for you.

SAM ALIANO tells me that he is still working as the vice principal of the Farmington (Conn.) High School. He continues to plan for more work, though , and hopes to teach his specialty, educational administration, at the college level someday.

GEORGE (MAX) MACKEY continues to practice law both in New York and New Jersey . Max lives in Ridgewood, N.J. with hls wife, Shelley.

They're currently empty nesters with his daughter, Ellen, a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern, and son, James, scheduled to graduate from Trinity thls May. DAVE ARLE tells me from the Baltimore area that his business, home construction, could use some economic good news. It's coming, Dave,justhang in there.

BRUCE STONE continues to do well in the securities business. He is living in Stamford and catches up with a host of Trinity classmates and those of nearby classes. Bruce is still working as a vice president at Prudential Securities in New York.

As always, I wish each member of the Class good luck and good health in the coming months. As a final request, let me again ask each of you to drop me, or the College, notes or comments about what you are up to these days. We all enjoy reading the news, but it's got to be heard to be printed in these Trinity Reporters . Until next time ...

La te-breaking news received in the

alumni office: WILLIAM deCOLIGNY writes that he has had a new experience: he was Melchior in a Menotti operetta, Amahl and the Night Visitors, this Christmas. He is presidentofthe board of directors of "Go Getters Inc." which serves the chronically mentally ill of the eastern shore of Maryland. He announces the arrival of two grandsons born within consecutive monthslast October and November.

At last summer's national conference of the Society for College and University Planning (including 3,000 college and university administrators), MARVIN PETERSON received dual recognition: he was the recipient of the Founders Award for distinguished achievement in planning in higher education, and the Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contributions to the Society.

Class Agents: John D. LaMothe, Jr. Raymond J. Beech

Bill Kirtz 26 Wyman St. Waban, Mass. 02168 HOWIE BONBRIGHT is living in Bryn Mawr, Pa. , working with an agency whlch helps prevent alcohol and drug abuse. He has two daughters and two grandchlldren.

JEFF HUDSON is director of public relations for a Detroit auto airbag firm; his three sons are attending Roanoke, Syracuse and South Oregon State College, respectively.

FRED PRINGLE is semi-retired in Connecticut, after an advertising career which included a stint in England and in international consulting.

He has two grandchildren.

BILL CRESSEY is director of international programs at Georgetown University where his daughter is a senior. His son is a high school freshman.

DEL SHILKRET's daughter, Lori, was recently married to a 1986 Millbrook School classmate.

HERB ROSS is in group insurance administration with the U.S. Postal Service.

LEW FRUMKES recently reviewed a book for The New York Times -on humor, of course.

BERT DRAESEL, rector of New York City's Church of the HolyTrinity, recently told a Berkshire School conference that we gain the fullest sense of our humanity through helping others. Since he began his ministry in 1965 in the Newark, N.J. ghettos, he has been actively involved in service organizations designed to help those most in need.

Class Agents: Peter H. Kreisel Vincent R. Stempien

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REUNION

The Rev. Arthur F. "Skip" McNulty Calvary Church 315 Shady Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15206

Make plans NOW to attend Reunion -June 11-14. Your committee

has been hard at work planning a funfilled weekend for all!

Class Agents: Judson M. Robert Thomas F. Bundy, Jr. Reunion Chair: Fred Pryor

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G. Alexander Creighton 117 Lincoln Rd. Lincoln,Mass. 01773

The alumni office clipped out a newspaper s quib about ED TRICKETT's folk concert performance last October in West Hartford . He teamed up with his colleagues, Ann Mayo Muir a nd Gordon Bok. Surprise 50th birthday parties continue to persist for our Class. This time it hit CHARLIE MCGILL off guard.

Wife, Pat, rousted about 40 friends from Minneapolis and miscellaneous places as distant as San Francisco to shout "Happy Birthday" to Ch arlie as he stepped into hi s NYC home base the evening of Dec. 7 (his real date is Jan. 2). Classmates there to make sure the event lived up to Trinity '63 tradition were JIM TOZER, SCOTT REYNOLDS and VIC KEEN. Also, DOUGTANSILL '61, DR. PAUL SULLIVAN '62 and JERRY HANSEN '51 were on hand to wish Charlie well.

YOURS TRULY was supposed to have been there but Chicago events made that impossible that evening; Elizabeth did the honors of representing us instead.

TED SCULL writes, "Here is a bit of news for your Class of 1963 column from someone who has been rather quiet for the last three decades. I got married, for the first time, on March 16, 1991, 15 days before my 50th birthday on April 1. My wife, Suellyn, is an Australian who has lived in New York almost as long as I have. She is the Upper School principal at Trinity School and I continue my life as a travel writer, my gainful employment since I left Trinity School as Middle School principal. One such administrator in the family is enough."

Let's hear from you. This column is too short this time! I need your help to let your classmates know what you're up to. Don't be modest, write!

Please forward your news for the next issue on to me at either my home (see above address), or my office: Metropolitan Fiber Systems , One Tower Lane, Suite 1600, Oakbrook Ter., lll. 60181.

Class Agents: Scott W. Reynolds Michael A. Schulenberg

After 12 years as headmaster of Green Fields School in Tucson, Ariz., PHINEAS ANDERSON is taking a year's leave of absence beginning June 1992. He will travel with his wife and two sons to West Africa, East Africa, India, Nepal, Egypt and southern Europe. If you have contacts in any of these places, let Ph in know.

KIAU LOI, chairman of the math-

ematics department at Salisbury School in Connecticut, has been nominated for the University of Chicago's Outstanding Teacher Award. Candidates are chosen based on statements from former students that a particular teacher inspired them to develop to their full potential.

The Nov. 25, 1991 issue of Business Week lists the chief executive officer s of America's 1,000 most valuable public corporations. Among them is WILSON TAYLOR, head of CIGNA Corporation.

Class Agent: Kenneth R. Auerbach Peter J . Knapp 20 Buena Vista Rd. West Hartford, Conn.

06107 Last November JOHN LEMEGA became chairman of the West Hartford Board of Education. John will serve as chair for a one-year term and will face the difficult challenge of continuing to provide the quality services and programs town residents expect within the constraints of limited bugetary resources. His goals include making every effort to help the Board achieve consensus on issues and to improve communication between the Board a nd Town Council. John is now a partner in the Hartford law firm of Halloran & Sage and has been elected a trusteeoftheJacob L. and Lewis Fox Foundation which provides scholarships to students graduating from Hartford schools.

EDWARD W. CHAPIN, JR. has written the alumni office that the graduate program in applied computer science at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore where he is the department chair has grown to over 60 students. He also notes that his daughter, Abigail, will celebrate her 16th birthday this May by completing her junior year as a physics major at the University of Maryland College Park!

RICHARD A. SMITH, JR. is still policy adviser with the European bureau at the State Department. His son, Carter, is a sophomore at Bates College.

That's all for now and please remember to keep me posted on news of note.

Class Agents: Louis A. Huskins, Esq. Peter A. Sturrock Joseph A. Hourihan, Esq. 18 Tumble Brook Cir. Somers, Conn. 06071 The winter doldrums apparently hit our Class. Ther e have been very few reports of news events. This is being written on Super Bowl Sunday in Minneapolis. Any bets as to which of our classmates are there in person? My personal choices would include ED LANDES (hometown ), TOM HART (writing a book), VAN IGOU (selling ice cream ), HOMER PERKINS (selling used T-shirts ), and HANK JUNOD (looking to buy the place). If anyone did make the game,

please let us know.

On the real news front, RICHARD CONNOLLY writes to us that he is a professor of philosophy at the University of Evansville, where he lives with his wife of23 years, Margaret. No small feat in this day and age-maybe the philosophy helps!

Their son, Sean, is a sophomore at Earlham Co llege where he plays on the varsity soccer team.

BOB DUNN writes from Santa Fe, N.M. inviting visits and calls from alumni visiting the area (tel. no.: 505-988-2693 ) - no collect calls please!

Of course , Bob couldn't be much farther from any alumni . Rumor has it that the last visit Bob received was from BILL BRACHMAN the year that the NCAA Final Four was in Albuquerque .

The most interesting correspondence came from RICH RISSEL, who enclosed a cartoon from the "Sports Hall of Shame." The caption reports that, "In one of the 'fowlest' games ever played , The Fans at Trinity College got even with Yale for always poking fun at their school's nickname - the Bantams. From the balcony of the Yale gym during a 1954 basketball game, 300 Trinity students flung open their overcoats, gym bags and band instrument cases, and tossed hundreds of squawking, flapping chickens down onto the court." Those earlier classes were so much less mature , just ask MIKE MOONVES. On a personal level, Rich is living in a tent in his backyard while his home is remodeled, and he's skiing in Sun Valley and hoping to make it to British Columbia in the late spring for some helicopter skiing, which is kind of like skiing down a mountain without the mountain. Way to show that maturity, Rich!

Keep those cards and letters coming. YOUR SECRETARY depends on you for this column. Remember, no piece of news is too small to share.

Late hreaki ng news received in the alumni office: PETER ALBERT M .D. writes that his son, Matthew, is graduating from Brown University this year and is preparing for his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees . His daughter, Sondra, is a sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. His only hope for Trinity is Jonathan, age 13, he notes.

A December article in a Hawaiian newspaperdescribesDAVIDBREMER's interest in birds of the central Oahu area . He led the 1991 Waipi'o Christmas Bird Count to search the nearby forests and mountains for unusual indigenous birds. Sponsored by the N ationa! Audubon Society, 1,600 bird counts are conducted from Guam to Hawaii and from Alaska to Brazil each year between Dec. 14 and Jan. 2.

The Oct. 29, 1991 business section of The Hartford Courant contains an article about and picture of CHARLES SNYDER, owner of The America Group in Glastonbury. His company, with 85 employees and sales that have increased 16 times since 1979, is an independent financial services firm that specializes in both insurance and financial planning.

Class Agent: Robert F. Powell, Jr.

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REUNION

Jeffrey Fox Fox & Company, Inc. 34DaleRd. Avon, Conn. 06001

Spring has sprung, and our 25th Reunion is just weeks away. If you are one of the few guys who has not yet registered, please call the alumni office at 203-297-2400. We hope you enjoyed ''The Trinity Years: '63-'67."Many of our kids are jealous we were students in the '60s, a nd that they aren't.

The aud io tape was just a reminder of how good it was.

Back by popular demand is this column's quiz. The query this month is whose rendition of"When A Man Loves A Woman" is better. Is it the imitator, that intense howler, Michael Bolton?

Oris it the originator, the soulful bluesbased, Percy Sledge? Answer at end of column.

On the subject of real music, JIM O'CONNOR provided a terrific recommendation at a meeting in Bloomingdale's. (Jim runs Bloomies' restaurant operations. ) He said it was mandatory to acquire the new CD Box "Back to Mono." "Back to Mono" was produced by Phil Specter, husband of Ronnie of the Ronnetes.

It is a retrospective on the music of the early '60s. Jim looks great a nd is helping put together our Class profile book.

STEVE GRIGGS is making news in college soccer. The Hartford Courant is our source for the inside scoop on the terrific job Steve is doing as coach of the men's soccer team at Yale. Yale is now a Division I soccer power, thanks to Steve. "Yale was just starti ng to rebuild its program as Steve Griggs took charge." And, "Griggs' teams have been notable for their style. Yale's play is characterized by smooth teamwork. The Elis rarely have superstars, but they always seem to have quality players.

That is a tribute to Griggs' ability to spot talent." The Trinity soccer team would beat the ale out of Yale . To discuss corner kicks, give Steve a call at 203-432-1495. Steve is also head tennis coach.

In a recent column, there might have been the incorrect inference that JOHN RAY was a colonel in the Army.

Negatory: he is in the Air Force. It's just that this civilian can't understand militaryspeak. To wit, if you want to write to John, send your epistles to HQ-USAFE , PSC 2, Box 7451. APO AE 09012. Now, is that supposed to be someplace?

NEIL RICE's daughter, Lexi '93, graced the pages of a recent Trinity Reporter. Lexi is a standout player on Trinity's field hockey team.

Another star on Trinity's field hockey is John Davison's daughter, Lyndsey '94. Lyndsey is one of the team's top scorers.

TED SEIBERT is flourishing at U.S. Trust in NYC. Ted has been there since 1970 where he is a senior vice president and portfolio manager. Ted and Barbara have two terrific sons, Chris, 18 and Scott, 15. Chris was accepted early decision at Wooster College in Ohio, and father and son are delighted. Wooster is remarkably similar to Trinity in its physical appearance. Scott is at Rumsey Hall School,

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Hans W. Becherer ' 57

F our Trinity Alumni were included in Busi11ess W eek magazine's November 1991 listing of The Corporate Elite, a dire ctory of th e c hief executives of the Business Week 1000, the most valuable publicly-held U .S. compan ies .

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HANS W. BECHERER ' 57 H ans W. Becherer '57 has been chainnan and chief executive officer of Deere & Company in Moline, Ill. since May, 1990. He holds a B.A. in history from Triniry and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He joined Deere & Company in 1962, working in marketing and then in the management ofEuropean sales branches. In 1977 , he was elected vice president responsible for export marketing.

In 1983, Becherer became senior vice president of Deere's Overseas Division , Fam1 Equipment and Consumer Products. In 1986, he was elected executive vice president, Fann Equipment and Consumer Products, Worldwide. He joined the board ofdirectors in 1986, was elected president and chief operating officer in 1987 , and was elected chief executive officer in 1989.

He serves on the board ofdirectors ofScheringPiough Corporation and Allied-Signal Inc., and is a member of the Chase Manhattan Bank lntemational Advisory Conmuttee. He has been appointed to the lndusrry Policy Advisory Committee to the Utlited States Trade R epresentative and the Secretary of Commerce.

TIMOTHY P . HORNE ' 59 Timothy P . H ome '59 is chainnan and chief executive officer ofWatts Regulator, W atts Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of safety and control valves with headquarters in North Andover, Mass. Mter earning a B.A. in liberal ans from Trinity, he entered the then-privately held fanuly business, The Watts Regulator Company, and trained in all the major disciplines of the busi ness.

In 1968, H ome was appointed vice president and general manager; in 1972, he became the executive vice president; and in 1976, he was appointed president. He became the chiefexecutive officer in 1978 and the chairman of the board in 1986.

"When I was at Tritlity, I didn 't know I was going to be a businessman - but I ended up in a general management position where I have to know a little bit about everything. T o a degree, a liberal arts education allows one to know a little

- John F. Levy '69

Timothy P. Home '59

bit about everything but not to be an expert in anytlung. Th e vatied experien ces I had at Trinity were good preparation for the various trades I ply in manufacturing.

"When you run a company as I do, communi cation is very important, to be dissenunated from my office to several thousand employees.

At Trinity, I took quite a few foreign languages, some linguistics courses, and improved my speaking skills. Those experiences enabled me to hone my conunutucations skills later on. In busin ess, one of the most important factors is the art of effective communication."

-Timothy P. Horne '59

JOHN F . LEVY '69 John F. Levy '69 is president and chief executive officer ofWaban Inc., a spin-off company of Zayre Corporation. H eadq uartered in Natick, Mass., W aban is the parent company of BJ's Wholesale C lub and HomeBase of Fullerton, Calif.

After eanunga B.A. in English, Levy attended Harvard Business School where he received an M.B.A. in 1973. He began his career with Zayre

John F. Levy '69

Wilson H. Taylor '64

at the Medfo rd , Mass. store as a stockboy in th e summer of 1963. Over the ensuing 20plus yea rs, he held a number of different positions - primaril y in m erchandising within th e corporation. About five yea rs ago, Zayre's warehouse divi sio n spun off into Waban Int., and Levy assum ed executive and finan cial rol es within th e new company.

"I cannot emphasize strongly enough that a liberal arts education so broadens your thought process and the approach you take to business and, indeed , the world that it is as important as anything else yo u might do in life."

WILSON H. TAYLOR '64 Wil son H. Taylor '64 has served as chai rman ofC IGNA Co rporation sin ce 1989, and as chief executive officer sin ce 1988. Taylor joined Connecticut General, a C IGNA predecessor company, in 1964. He held a number of positions in various life insurance, employee benefits and tafT operations before being nam ed a vice president in 1975. In 1980, he was elected se ni or vice presid ent and chi ef financial officer of Connec ticut General.

When the merger of Connecticut General and INA Corporation took place in 1982, Taylor was named executive vice president and chief finan cial officer of C IGNA Corporation. In 1983 , he became president ofC IGNA 's Property and Casualty Group. In 1988, he was named president and chiefoperating officer ofCIGNA. A Pili Beta Kappa graduate ofTrinity, Taylor is past president of the National Association of Casualty and Surety Executives, and past chai rman of the board of the American Insurance Association. He is a member of the board of the American Enterprise Institute and the Philadelphia Orchestra. H e also serves as a council member of The Prince of Wales Forum for Business Leaders, which works to solve worldwide social problems while spuning development of market econonues. " ! had the best of both academic worlds at Tritlity: inunersion in a broad cuniculum of study that only a liberal arts institute affords and , as a mathematics major, the opportunity to focus on a discipline that not only fascinated me, but provided me with a clear career path.

"Business requires a broad understanding of the society in which we live and the critical issues that shape the markets in wluch we operate. A liberal arts education develops a way of looking at things in the broadest of temlS. It contribu tes to your ability to think through problems with the advantage of seeing the issues from a vari ety of social, lustorical and econonuc perspectives. " As I look back, I particularly value my liberal arts traini ng at Trinity as l believe it helped prepare me to appreciate the broad range of disciplines necessary to making decisions-born personal and business-in the lughly competitive environment that makes up today's world."

-Wilson H. Taylor '64

and ready to move to the big time- high school, probably at Salisbury School.

Ted is active on the board of St. Luke's School and Rumsey Hall. He is also actively helping with the Reunion. If you want to talk stocks and bonds, give Ted a jingle at 212-887-0497.

SHERM FARNHAM is living and lending well as a commercial banker in Cleveland. Sherm and his lovely wife, Anne, live in Hudson , Ohio, a rustic little town that is a picture of New England. Their children are also doing well: Jessica is graduating from Duke this year, and Jamie (son) is a competitive swimmer and a freshman at Princeton. Sherm is a bicycling enthusiast to say the least. He regularly organizes a bunch of kids for weeklong bike tours. That's civilized and reasonable, but biking 30 miles both to and from work, as Sherm does in the summer, sounds like addiction. At any rate, Sherm and Anne love the Land of the Cleves, and enjoy their lifestyle.

The Farnhams are planning on attending our Reunion. In the meantime, if you need a big loan or want tips on soothing sore biker's butt, call Sherm at 216-566-0402.

The alumni office has heard that CHARLES JACOBINI moved to Ankara in 1990 where he expected to be for three years. He says, "Ankara is pleasant except during winter when pollution is bad. Daughters, Anne (10) and Caroline (seven), attend British School. Wife, Dianne, works at Arthur Andersen."

About "When A Man Loves A Woman," the survey says: women prefer Michael Bolton, aficionados of music prefer Percy Sledge, and RICH RATZAN prefers Percy Faith.

Come to the Reunion. You are expected.

Class Agents: James H. Oliver

Class Agent: Leif E. Washer John L. Bonee III, Esq. One State St. Hartford, Conn. 06103

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Jeff Fox WilliamT.Barrante,Esq. 107 Scott Ave. P.O. Box273 Watertown, Conn.

06795 YOUR SECRETARY has received some news from DON BISHOP '67.

Don and his family have moved back to the U.S. from Taiwan. Their new address is 10215 Marshall Pond Road, Burke, Va. 22015, which is about 20 miles from the Washington Monument.

Don is still with the Foreign Service, and has a new position in Washington with the U.S. Information Agency.

It would be nice to get some news from some '68ers. Please write.

Class Agent: George H. Barrows,

Week magazine's listing of CEOs of America's 1,000 most valuable public corporations. Amherst, Wesleyan and Williams also had four on the list but no college comparable to Trinity had more. John joined Waban fresh from Harvard "B" School in 1973 and became CEO in 1990.

THE REV. LLOYD A. LEWIS, JR. , who should now be addressed as The Very Reverend , has moved to Hempsted, N.Y. and is at George Mercer, Jr. Memorial School ofTheology in Garden City, N.Y. Previously he was at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. The Northeast magazine of The Hartford Courant recently ran a story (as reported in the winter issue) on RANDY GORDON's sartorial problems. It seems that neither the tweed jackets that he wears for teaching nor the standard blue blazer and gray flannel trousers he wears on other occasions were appropriate to his attendance at a Grateful Dead concert to which he was invited by his cousin. We presume that all ended happily and that Randy appeared no more out of place than usual.

I saw BRIAN TITUS at the Trinity-Amherst football game (a rout for Trinity, couldn't happen to nicer guys).

He reported that JOHN (WALLY) BURNES married his night school French teacher.

The alumni office has received word that DAVID POLLACK presented a program on landlord strategies in bankruptcies at the International Council ofShoppingCenters in Scottsdale, Ariz.

I close with my usual plea for notes, memos, faxes or calls about our class so that I may continue to fill this space.

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Edward S. Hill, Esq. One Exchange Pl. P.O. Box 2480 Waterbury, Conn.

06722-1791 JOHN LEVY, chief executive officer at Waban, was listed as one of four Trinity alumni (the others in the Classes of 1957, 1959 and 1964 and being significantly older) in Business

"Neighbor Writes Blockbuster of a Letter" read the h eadline in The Danbury Press, of all places. The "Neighbor" was YOURS TRULY. It is amazing how the press loves to feature "little guy wins out" stories.

The article was picked up by the wire services and published , not only in the Hartford papers, but also as far south as Washington, D.C. The problem arose when a local Blockbuster Video franchisee hung a gargantuan Blockbuster display sign on a new store at the end of my street, in violation of our local zoning laws. Complex and tedious litigation ensued.

Because I was not acting as a lawyer in the litigation, which was pursued by the town attorney, I was able to write directly to the CEO of the parent corporation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. who took action to get the sign down, thereby effectuating an end run around the court system. Many thanks to all of you who cheered me on!

Rogers Corporation of Rogers, Conn. has promoted DALE REED to the position ofSoladyne division manager. Dale has been with Rogers for 18 years, most recently in the position of marketing manager. He had originally joined Rogers as division controller.

After Trinity, Dal e earned his M.B.A.

in marketing from Georgia State Universi_ty (Atlanta). He has been active in trade and business associations and has authored numerous technical articles. He has played an important role in the implementation of total quality concept (''TQC") producing significant savings for the company, especially with its microwave circuit board fabrication process. Dale currently lives in the Green Valley section of North County, San Diego, Calif. with his wife and three children.

Class Agent: Ernest J. ~attei, Esq. William H. Reynolds, Jr. 5470 Ridgetown Cir. Dallas, Texas 75230 All of you, and especially those of you who attended Reunion and saw TOM WEINER, will be delighted with his news. His son , Stefan, was born Aprilll with hydrocephalus and things were extremely scary around the time of Reunion . Tom says Stefan is now thriving. His older sister, Annabelle, graduates from Boston University in June. In Tom's words, this makes him "uniquely qualified to offer parent education workshops."

DAVID GREEN is alive and well in Detroit, where he lives with his wife and two sons. They are expecting their third child this year. David continues to be active in the socialist workers' movement, which keeps him particularly active in Detroit. In addition, he has visited the Soviet Union recently as a lecturer. and a listener regarding American labor practices and the transition to the free market economy, so called, in the former USSR. He extended special hellos to KEN WINKLER, PHIL KHOURY and JOEL GOLD FRANK '69.

This turns out to be a slow winter for Trinity '71 news. As always, I look forward to hearing from you.

Class Agents: L. Peter Lawrence John P. Reale, Esq.

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Paul ~- Sachner Apt.3B, 350 Bleecker St. New York, N.Y. 10014

BURT ADELMAN, M.D. has been appointed director of clinical research in the medical research department of Bingen, Inc. Bingen, located in Cambridge, Mass., is a biopharmaceu tical company principally engaged in developing drugs for human health care through genetic engineering. Burt's department is responsible for conducting the company's clinical trials and evaluating the efficacy and safety of potential new drugs.

ALAN PATRIGNANI reports from Buffalo that he now has one wife, three children and two offices for his thriving practice in orthodontics.

STEPHEN METZ is directing the "Science 2000 Project" at the Governor Dummer Academy, where he is a teacher and basketball coach. The project, undertaken with the help of a federal grant, is meant to re-examine

secondary school teaching.

For the past six years CANDEE TREADWAY has served as marketing directorofNew England USA, the tourism group involved in overseas marketing from Europe to New England.

As a result of a recent appointment by the Canadian Consulate General in Boston, Candee is now promoting tourism in the other direction - from the U.S. to Canada - specializing in the outdoor-adventure markets.

The alumni office has been informed that TIMOTHY BALCH and his wife, Janice Bickham, are parents of a son, James, who is three. Tim works as assistant reference librarian at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

DENISE TUCKER, ownerofExercise Enterprise, has been chosen to serve on the Reebok advisory board for a two-year term, providing expertise in the areas of high school fitness , step training and fitness education.

Class Agents: Whitney M. Cook R. Thomas Robinson Reunion Chairs:

Kristin Anderson John MacCallum Patricia A. Tuneski 560 N St. S.W. Apt. #110 Washington, D.C. 20024-4606 DIANE FIERRI BROWN has been named to a four-year term on the board of trustees ofRenbrook School in West Hartford.

CHARLES GRISWOLD of Wellesley, Mass. has been named chairman of the philosophy department and a professor of philosophy at Boston University's College of Liberal Arts.

Last fall, THE REV. JAMES KOWALSKI , rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hartford, participated in workshops sponsored by the Episcopal churches of the Greater Hartford area which dealt with the problem of children who live with hunger.

Last spring, LANCE MAYER was co-curator of an exhibition at The LymanAllynArtMuseuminNewLondon , Conn. The exhibit was centered on three generations of a Connecticut family who were portrayed by 18thcentury painter, Winthrop Chandler.

Lance was also co-editor of the catalogue of the exhibition.

Class Agents: Patti ~antell-Broad H. Jane Gutman James A. Finkelstein 17 Bracken Court San Rafael, Calif. 94901 REBECCA ADAMS notes that she will be on research leave during the 1992 calendar year. During that time she will be funded by the AARP Andrus Foundation to study adult friendship patterns and mental health . Rebecca and her husband, Steven Iliff, reside in Greensboro, N.C. LYNNE BUCHWALD writes of the arrival of her daughter, Esti

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When JoAnne A. Epps '73 was applying to college, a graduate of her high school telephoned her with an offer she couldn't refuse.

The young man-whom Epps admits she didn't know well-told her he was a student at Trinity and that the College was going coed. If she were interested in visiting the campus, he would drive to Pennsylvania to get her and she could stay at the home of the director of admissions. Epps' family had no money for college visits, so she eagerly accepted the upperclassman's invitation.

"Trinity looked the way I thought a college should look," Epps says, recalling that visit. "People went out of their way to make me feel at home, and that continues today."

Little did the young man from Cheltenham, Pa. High School know that he was recruiting a woman who in 1988 would be elected to a six- year term as an alumni member of the board of trustees.

Epps, now a law professor at Temple University, majored in psychology at Trinity because the discipline intrigued her. Awed by the likes of Counseling Center Director and Psychology Professor George C. Higgins, Jr., she decided against a career in that field and opted for one in which she felt confident of her ability to succeed.

And succeed she did, graduating from the Yale University School ofLaw in 1976. Her first two positions were in criminal law: she was Deputy City Attorney in Los Angeles from 1976 to 1980 and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1980 to 1985 . During that period of her

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career, her exceptional skills in drug and arson prosecution were recognized in citations from the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Treasury Department. In 1985, she entered teaching as a member of the Temple faculty.

Generous with her time, Epps is a board member of the Defender Association of Philadelphia and is chair of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals' Lawyers' Advisory Committee. Trinity became a grateful recipient of her volunteer service in 1982, when she was appointed to the Board of Fellows. She was a fellow until 1988 and was chair of that board for one year. Now, as a trustee, she devotes a significant amount of energy to the College, often leaving her work and her husband, Jay, who is a pharmaceutical representative, for days at a time. " It's absolutely worth the time I spend," Epps says of her service to the College. "I believe Trinity is a special place that makes an indelible mark on people. It's easy to care--to want to make sure that Trinity is the best it can be."

Epps serves as a member of two standing committees of the board, the execu-

tive and the finance and audit, as well as the ad hoc committee studying the role of fraternities and sororities. For the past three years she has chaired the committee on student affairs, which this year examined such areas as theme dormitories, alcohol use on campus, and the status of the admissions effort.

"I was appointed to the committee on student affairs partly because of my role as an educator and partly because of my interest in the well- being of students," says Epps. "This year's focus on social life and strategic planning at Trinity makes it clear that the well-being of students is of concern to lots of our constituents."

There are many rewards in being a trustee, says Epps. One is the opportunity to represent the interests of women and of people of color on the board. Another is the experience of getting to know her fellow trustees, whom she describes as a group of "varied, interesting, and talented Trinity lovers." ''I've loved the mix of being able to talk to students and to administrators," Epps says. "I feel that on some level I can provide a bridge. It's like having access to the court and to the coaches' locker room.

"The trust of the College reposes in the board of trustees," she continues. "I have a real sense that people have put their trust in me and the other board members. It is, at the same time, sobering and exhilarating."

While many of her board experiences have been interesting, one in particular stands out in Epps' mind.

"Being able to participate in the selection of this president was a most extraordinary experience," says Epps, who knew Tom Gerety at Yale and spoke at his inauguration as Trinity's 17th president. "There is tremendous responsibility in selecting a college president, and it was particularly rewarding when it resulted in the selection ofTom." â&#x20AC;˘

(Esther) Shulia Bernstein (see Births). Lynne notes that Esti has the best big brother in the world, Isaac Noah, who was born in 1988.

We received word that KEVIN NORTH was recently appointed vice president and director of real estate for ITT Hartford Insurance. Congratulations, Kevin!

I received a great letter from DAVID TAYLOR who wrote that he and his wife, Jane, have moved to Higganum, Conn. so that Jane could become pastor of the Higganum Congregational Church. David continues to work for the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ. In addition to oversight responsibility for the social change ministry of the Conference, he is an area conference minister with pastoral responsibility to 180 pastors and 70 churches. To make life even more interesting, 16-month-old Meg has joined four-year-old Emily to complete David and Jane's family. David notes, "It's often tough to balance all the schedules, but it goes well. " (YOUR SECRETARY notes: "How true that is!")

Finally, DOUG SANDERSON sent a long note informing us that he and his wife, Audrey Goldstein, had their first daughter, Phoebe Hannah , (see Births ). Doug notes that she is extremely cute, of course! Her big brother, Scot, who is two-and-onehalf years old, and who is very cute himself, adores his little sister. Doug has been continuing as the managing partner of the Fairfax, Va. office of Miles & Stockbridge, a law firm having offices in seven locations in and around Baltimore and Washington. JEFF SEIBERT '79 is one of Doug's partners.

Just in case some of you might wonder if your secretary has changed jobs again, let me inform you that I continue to thrive in the world of human resource, compensation and benefits consulting as the president and chief executive officer of W F Corroon's western region based in San Francisco. W F Corroon is the new name (effective 1/1/92) for C&B Consulting Group and is the result of the merger of our parent company, Corroon & Black, with Willis Faber to form Willis Corroon Group , pic, the fourth largest insurance intermediary in the world.

News recently received in the alumni office: S. MICHAEL MINARD writes that he has begun his third year in Prague, Czechoslovakia. "Here I play, teach and learn , as well as work as an ad agency creative director when not seeking enviable things to write home to friends and alumni magazines," he notes.

MARJORIE BRADFORD STANFORD is spending Sept. 1991Sept. 1992 on loan from the Folger Shakespeare Library to the National Endowment for the Arts where she is assistant director of the literature program.

Keep those cards and letters coming!

Class Agent: Stacie Bonfils Benes

Henry E. Bruce, Jr. 321 Windsor Rd. Englewood, N.J. 07631-1423 ROYDEN GRIMM writes that he was married in July and has moved to Noank, Conn. "after a five-year effort to restore a sea captain's house." He is an investment broker with A. G. Edwards in New London, Conn.

JOAN KAUFMAN, who is with Harvard School of Public Health, was married on March 23 , 1991 to Mark Evan Levine.

Class Agents: Clarkson Addis ITI Victoria Tilney Bevan Elaine Feldman Patterson 824 South Ridgeley Dr. Los Angeles, Calif.

90036 What a relief1 Some of you are beginning to write to me directly with news to report. Please keep it up. 1992 is the 20th anniversary of our arrival on campus as freshmen. What better time could there he to let your now grown-up classmates know what you're doing, where you live, etc.

Our esteemed Class secretary emeritus, CHARLIE STEWART, wrote in December that he was just leaving on a two-week trip to Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. We hope you bought everything in sight, or is that a trade deficit no-no?

PAUL SANER sent a note that he's a proud second-time father now that Jennifer Laura arrived on April 18, 1991. Paul's at Bank of Boston and by now is once again getting a full night's sleep before making those deals.

Also in the baby department, GREG POTTER wrote to announce that he and his wife, Ann Marie, had a daughter named Amanda Leigh on Sept. 10, 1991. Congratulations to the expanded Potter clan.

The longest letter came from JAMES PEREZ-GILLESPIE. "The Diz" is now living in Los Angeles (hey, neighbor) working at SI communications where he manages the creation, production, marketing and distribution ofT.V. specials, series and movies.

All you entertainment industry wannabes can call him at (818) 841-9350. He also wrote "the first part of the year was difficult as my younger brother was killed in service during the Persian Gulf War (sincere thanks to my Trinity friends for their outpouring of love and support)." Coincidentally, YOUR SECRETARY is writing this column on Jan. 16, the first anniversary of the war. I know all of the Class of '76 send their best to you and your family .

The Patterson household is keeping busy as always. A lot ofhours in the office and on airplanes. I just finished the fall alumni interview season and was impressed by the Trinity applicants whom I met. It just makes one feel old. Gregg and I rang out the old year with an overnight bicycle trip from our house to Newport Beach and back, 55 miles each way. Too bad, it didn't burn ofT any ofthe pounds gained during the holidays.

STEVE TRIGGS just sent this news to the alumni office: "Just back from Wiesbaden where I covered the final hostage release for Florida news network and Cox affiliates. Maybe you saw me during the Terry Anderson Press Conference."

Please pick up a pen and drop me a line!

Class Agent: Gerald F. La Plante

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Mary Desmond Pinkowish 101 Ellwood Ave. Mount Vernon, N.Y. 10552

THE REV. MARK HENRICKSON, who has been director of the AIDSmv program of the Hartford health department since 1987, has become the associate director of the Aris Project, an AIDS support program for Santa Clara County in California.

NANCY HAYIM SAGON lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two boys (Mark, five and Drew, two). She is a psychologist in a private group practice.

Marjory and C. BOWDOIN TRAIN have two children (Julia, born Jan. 10, 1990 and Russell, born Sept.

27, 1991). Bowdoin is deputy assistant administrator of the U.S. E.P.A.'s office of solid waste and emergency response.

Class Agents: Stephen M. Sunega Steven M. Kayman, Esq. Marian Kuhn Reunion Chairs: Sarah Gordon DeGiovanni Tony Mazzarella Rick Meier Kathryn Maye Murphy 8 Kneeland Rd. Marlborough, Conn.

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OK, Classmates, this is an all-out appeal! I need your news to keep this column going and interesting. The alumni office received only four items from our Class for this quarter. With our 15-year Reunion coming up next year, can't we do better than that?

Congratulations to C. G. BRIAN COATS-THOMAS who was recently promoted to director, North America Planning, at the Haagen-Dazs Company (a division of the Pillsbury Company). Do we get free samples for Reunion?

ROB PAWLICK has been at Cygnus Therapeutic Systems for the past three years and took the company public in January 1991. Cygnus' first product, a nicotine patch for smoking cessation, will be on the market by press time for any of you who've decided to kick the habit!

RANDY PEARSALL wins this column's prize for travel. He recently returned from his first business trip to Japan! Randy also writes that he is getting ready to renovate his 90-yea~足 old Victorian home.

JONATHAN SENDOR recently moved to Chicago where he is vice president at a software development

company. Jonathan is responsible for sales, marketing, development, training and distribution channels for a telecommunications software product line.

Jim and I had a terrific trip to Europe last fall. It was my first visit, but I absolutely fell in love with Paris and would return in a heartbeat! The Italian countryside is beautiful, but although I'm Italian myself, I found the people to be somewhat rough around the edges. Maybe they didn't like my American accent! My career is currently in a state of transition as a result of re-engineering at Aetna.

That's it for now. Please start marking your calendars for our 15year Reunion , which will be June 1013, 1993. I look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible. And please send your news for next time or I'll have to start making up some wild and crazy stories ... let's see , who was it that went on that African safari? Oh yeah , it was ... !

Class Agents: Frank P. Novak Caleb D. Koeppel, Esq. Jon H. Zonderman 535 Howellton Rd. Orange, Conn. 06477 ROY CHILDERS is serving as chairman of the Ocean County Tourism Advisory Council and has heen elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Shore Multiple Listing Service.

ALLAN SCHMID's new son, Henry Alexander (see Births) joins sister, Lucy, two and one half.

Class Agents: T. Michael Preston, Esq. Joanne E. Johnson, Esq. Cynthia Rolph Ballantyne 101 Abbott Rd. Wellesley Hills, Mass.

02181 Thanks to a recent conversation with WILLIAM BULLARD, I have obtained a fair amount of news for this edition of the Reporter. It is evident that babies will be dominating the news in the year to come. WILLIAM and Diane BULLARD are the proud parents of William Rotch III , born Nov. 1, 1991. Although he mentioned the birth of his son , William didn't give the details which I had to get from his sister-in-Jaw, JULIE ROGERS BULLARD '79! William has also recently moved from a branch manager job to product development for NYNEX Mobile Communications.

BOB and Caroline SHAW were eagerly awaiting their flrst baby's arrival last February. Bob is the assistant director of college counseling at Lawrenceville School.

RICK and Joan MARGENOT are also expecting their first in April.

Rick has his own law practice in Greenwich, Conn.

A new O'BRIEN is anticipated this summer for JOHN and his wife, Elizabeth. John is the assistant di-

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William further reports that MIKE HINTON is a senior chemist with Morton Thiokol in New Jersey, and that ALEX SHERWOOD is living in Menlo Park, Calif. and working at Sun Microsystems.

LINDA SCOTT sent news over the ho]jdays that she is now working as special assistant/speechwriter to the president of the New York City board of education. She still sees SUZANNE BLANCAFLOR a couple of times a year , and she saw LAURIE FERGUSSON and BOB PLUMB on Cape Cod this summer. Laurie and Bob are expecting their second child at the end of February.

I also received news form LIZ SEAGER that she and her husband, Mark Dunn, are finally settling into their new home, with only minor projects left to complete. Liz, an attorney mth IMCERA Group, Inc., is starting the executive program at Northwestern this January.

LUCRETIA HADDEN WEINER and her husband , Wayne, are also enjoying their new home in Orinda, Calif. , a hilly , wooded suburb of San Francisco. Keecy has a new position at Chevron. She is now in charge of international advertising and public relations for the fuel additives division of Chevron.

MARLA JO FRIEDMAN has recently been promoted to EDI consultant in the computer info systems department of CIBA Geigy Corporation.

Her second son, Eric Robert, was born on Dec. 25, 1991.

LYNN HYATT SCHAEFER wrote to announce the birth of her fourth child , Sarah Hill, on Oct. 7, 1991. She and her husband, Harry, are keeping busy with their expanding business, Schaefer, Inc., and with their family.

News recently received in the alumni office: After three years in Connecticut, DR PAUL HAUGHTON h as returned to the Philadelphia area where he works as staff psychologist at Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic.

CAROLYN CHAMBERLAIN has been very busy for the last five years with work and family. She finished her M.B.A. at George Washington University in 1990. She is enjoying her work as a loan manager for 35 apartii)ent communities at a county housing finance authority outside of Washington , D.C. Her two daughters are threeand-a-half and nine months. She says she would like to join the Trinity Club of D.C. , but has no time!

Class Agents: William R. Bullard Thomas D. Casey Nina W. McNeely Diefenbach Beth Isham Nichols

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DAVID ALBIN recently became a partner in the Stamford, Conn. law firm of Finn Dixon & Her]jng.

STEVE and DOTTIE BUNDY DYLAG were expecting their second child last February.

Class Agents: Michael D. Reiner, Esq. Timothy P . Henry

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Steven R. Andsager 1170 Donegal Ln. Barrington, lll. 60010

Well, it didn't take long for me to make my first "faux pas." In my first Class of '82 news report, I made the following statement , " NANCY KESSLER NETCOH is enjoying working part-time for The Travelers and spending a lot of time with her two sons." For those of you who know Nancy and FRANK NETCOH '81 very well , I'm sure the fact that Nancy and Frank had two sons came as quite a shock. Nancy immediately wrote to inform me that my sources (which I refuse to reveal at this time) were incorrect and that her daughter, Leigh, did not consent to one of the earliest sex change operations on record. Okay, Nancy, I get the point!

However, in order to make sure I had the facts straight, I recontacted my source and did a little investigative reporting on my own. After contacting all of the hospitals within a 200 mile radius of Hartford, I must concede that Nancy is correct. No sex change operation did take place.

Therefore, Nancy is enjoying working part-time at The Travelers and spending a lot of time with her son and daughter.

As has been the case for the past three years, ERIC MENDOZAWOODS called me for my annual contribution pledge for the campaign for Trinity. In our brief conversation, (l was Eric's first call), Eric told me that be is expecting his second child in January (1992). Eric also said that he keeps in contact mth BILL TALBOT and that Bill is working at The Hartford as a fmancial analyst.

Since I hadn't spoken to him in a while (translation- I needed news for this report), I contacted my old roommate, BERN DEMPSEY. Bern is living in Atlanta and works as an attorney for Atlanta Legal Aid. He's enjoying the courtroom experience and is looking forward to Atlanta hosting the Olympics in 1996.

In the big news department, LEILA GORDON DYER was recently promoted to the position of vice president by the board of directors of the Bryn MawrTrustCompany. Waytogo,Leila!

Now to the mail. MICHAEL LIPP wrote in to say that he is teaching science and musical theater at Jacksonville High School of the Performing Arts. In addition to this full-time endeavor, Michael is actively involved in the local theater scene. If you're in Jacksonville and there is a local play

nearby, you may want to check it out.

ALICE HARLOW RONCONI wrote in to say that she was happy to hear about LUCY CARNEY. Alice is having loads of fun living in Las Vegas. Her son, Alessandro, is apparently growing like a weed, and it is almost time to enroll him at Trinity (Alessandro would be the third generation of Alice's family to attend Trinity).

Immediately after the Reporter was delivered with my first Class of '82 news, I received two very nice letters from TRACEY CAESAR TOLERICO and DEBBIE MANDELA MYERS. Tracey is very busy raising her three children. (Note: My sources tell me that Tracey has two girls and recently had a boy, Matthew John, who was born in August of 1991.)

Tracey went on to say that her husband, CHRIS TOLERICO, is enjoying his job as an emergency room physician. (Special note to Tracey yes , I am the "Spargs" who lived with DAVE HOWE, and, of course, I remember both you and Chris!)

Debbie and her husband, Jeff, celebrated the birth of their first child, Jonathan Abbott Myers, in August of 1990. Debbie is semi-retired as she has joined the ranks of the "pink collar" work force. She's at home full time and using her excess energy writing children's books.

Debbie provided information about two other Class of '82 alums .

ANN PFISTER-BROWN is in guidance at Red Bank Catholic in Red Bank, N.J. She and her husband, Rick, recently finished renovating their home in Pine Beach. After the remodeling job was completed, Ann and her husband treated themselves to a trip to Paris and then the West Coast. Debbie also said that MARGARET PETRIE MAGGARD has moved from Goshen , N.Y. to Washington, D.C. a nd truly enjoys being in our nation's capital.

In the "I think this will be too late but I've been asked to put it in the Class notes anyway" department, JOE UPTON, SUE UPTON and BARB SHERMAN LEVISON want me to remind you that the big lOth Reunion is set for June 11-14. You should have already received a phone call inquiring as to whether you will attend.

(Speaking of Barb Levison, her husband, Lee, is the newly-appointed head of the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Conn.)

The alumni office has heard from RUTH WATSON who is an attorney mth Blumenthal & Wayson, P.A. in Annapolis, Md. As for me, I recently completed a professional milestone by becoming a Fellow in the Society ofActuaries. Now that my exam-taking days are over, I plan on spending more time with my family.

Please write me a short note if you get a chance. I'd love to include news about you in a future Class notes column. See you at the Reunion.

Class Agents: Sarah M. Larkin Peter A. Gutermann, Esq. Eric Mendoza-Woods Reunion Chairs: Suzanne Engdahl Upton Barbara Sherman Levison

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H. Scott Nesbitt 3450 Kleybolte Ave. Apartment 115 Cincinnati, Ohio 45226

ALISONBENZCZUCHRAandher husband, Bert, announce the arrival of their son, Andrew Garret, born last May 14. Alison is an assistant vice president in estate settlement services at Connecticut National Bank.

ERIC FISHER writes from Zurich, Switzerland that he will be visiting his parents in Rockville, Conn. next September. He is looking forward to visiting the campus and seeing the new alumni house. "The pictures from the Reporter looked great!" he notes.

ELSPETH HOTCHKISS is a regional manager for CIS Technologies"lots of fun in the ever-changing healthcare technology field ," she writes.

Class Agents: Ruth Flaherty Beaton Susan S. Fiske-Williams Bruce C. Silvers, Esq.

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Jane Melvin Mattoon Apt.lllN 2535 North Orchard St. Chicago, lll. 60614

Greetings. Consider this column one of quality, not quantity. We're a little short on news this time , but what we have is good!

A wonderful picture arrived the other day with a note from MARIAN KORTH MULLANEY. She has two beautiful children - Dickie, who is three and one half, and Colleen, who was born last April. Marian sounded great, too. She works for an attorney administering his estates practice, but the mom part sounds like it's the best. The two combined make her "late for everything!"

STEVE and ANNE GURIN TALL are in London- I even have the phone number! Steve and Anne live right near JANE KLAPPER SYKES '83 ... small world ... they're expecting their second baby in June. Looks like the Class of '14 (or something like that) is filling out quite nicely.

AnotefromAMYWAUGHCURRY reported that Sarah Vail Curry was born in November. Inside sources say she wins the award for most beautiful baby. I have a feeling some of the other moms and dads who have written lately might say it should be at least a tie.

JOE ADLER and MARIANNE ALLESSIO '85 wrote that they're both pursuing their M.S. degrees in physical therapy at Beaver College in Pennsylvania. They're also very involved in the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia. Congratulations to Joe and Marianne who celebrated their first wedding anniversary last fall .

The Chicago contingent is doing fine. I keep leaving messages for ART RICE who's in the area but very busy.

We had a lovely dinner with CHIP LAKE not too long ago. I'm enjoying my job at Leo Burnett, still working on the Pillsbury account. We love Chicago - anybody wanna buy a condo in Hartford?

Please write, call, or send brain waves. I'd love to have a huge, full column next time.

The following is news recently received in the alumni office: RANDI BORT-ROSENBLOOM, who completed her Ph .D. degree in molecular biology in 1989, has moved to Poughkeepsie, N.Y. with her husband and son, Adam . She is teaching biology at Marist College and Dutchess County Community College.

NICHOLAS DEPPEN writes that he has moved to Seattle with Alexa.

She's a student at the University of Washington and he's working for DATA I/0 Corporation. "And yes, we really do plan to get married - one day!" he notes.

MATT GOLDING is a market sales specialist for U.S.G. Interiors in San Francisco and his wife, Dawn , is an occupational therapist for the California Pacific Medical Center.

THOMAS MALONEY, who will be married soon (see Engagements), is a senior financial analyst with General Motors Acceptance Corp. in Detroit, Mich .

Class Agents: W. Townsend Ziebold, Jr. Janice M. Anderson

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Lee Coffin 20 Douglas Rd. Glastonbury, Conn.

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For the first time in my tenure as Class Secretary, I can legitimately grouse about the paucity of mail visiting my mailbox on its merry way to this column ... but I won't succumb to the tempting opportunity to whine.

You see the address; write if you will.

That said, the following are the few, lonely tidbits about our erstwhile classmates that I was fortunate enough to scrape together for this column. (Is it working?) I know, I know, you're all busy, too busy to send your loyal scribe a note about your health, or your promotion , or that new bundle that screams all night long (I'm referring to infants .. .).

I understand. No really, I do. It's okay. I like talking to myself in these columns. I crack myself up sometimes . I also have a mother who earned her Ph.D. in guilt, so I know how to dispense a few modicums of that precious elixir when the need arises. So, please spare us that horrific fate . Buy a stamp. Write me, before I follow JANE MELVIN's '84 lead and start offering recipes for news!

Better yet, you can visit my office.

I came into work one morning last fall and found a note from FRANCA DEROSA on my desk! Pretty amazing carrier pigeon Franca has on retainer, isn't it?! Seems Franca was escorting a young cousin on his/her college tour, and their voyage led through Connecticut College. She says hi, and that she's working in Hartford . See how easy it is?

Several others took the "two birds, one stone" approach and sent Class communiques along with holiday greetings last December. Very smart economics in a recessionary period, don't you know! MIYUKI KANEKO actually sent two cards (oops). She's

MATTHEW GOLDING '84 and Dawn Hecht were married on July 28, 1991 in Palos Verdes, Calif. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (top row, I. tor.) Thacher Storm '84, Bruce Silvers '83, Andrew Lituchy '84; (middle row, I. to r.) Jane Melvin Mattoon '84, Jim Niness '84, Andrew Loft '84; (bottom row, I. to r.) groom, bride, Neil Schneider '84, Nancy Golding Purdy '87, Lincoln Purdy '87. Missing from photo: Robert Golding '80.

just finished up her third semester of "stinking Jaw school" (her words) at Rutgers, but says she has "a few great pals to keep me from falling under."

Hang on Miyuks, only three more to go. STEVE NORTON also dropped down my chimney from his perch in the Nation's Capital, where I gather he's still working for Connecticut Rep. Barbara Kennelly. LORI DAVIS SHIELD's card announced her new job at J . Walter Thompson in San Francisco where she's working as a media supervisor. Lori says she and Joe are loving life in the Bay area.

MARTHA BONNEVILLE sent me two coupons for CIBA vision saline, so I know she reads my treatises each quarter. She thought the coupons would be handy "in these hard times."

They were, Martha. Here's winking at you!

CARIN VINCENT has been promoted to assistant director at CIGNA in Hartford, and she requests that any Trinity grads at said insurance hot spot give her a call.

MARIANNE ALLESSIO and her husband, JOE ADLER '84, are pursuing their M.S. degrees in physical therapy at Beaver College, which we all remember from junior year abroad fame. Marianne says she and Joe are very involved with the Tibetan BuddhistCenterofPhiladelphia, and she's beginning research on her thesis regarding physical responses to breath-

ing meditation. They n!cently celebrated their first wedding anniversary.

HOWARD SAD IN SKY is completing his pediatric residency at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va. Meanwhile, up north in Nashua, N.H.,CATHYWALLERTmarriedVictor Spence on Feb. 29. Very clever, Cathy, getting married on Leap Day. It'll be a while before you hit that Golden 50th, though!

That's it. Short and sweet. You know what to do. You can also give me a ring. I'm in the book, although that'll be more than 29 cents.

See you!

Late breakingnewsreceivedin the alumni office: DAVID BLYN writes, "One never knows where an economics degree will lead. I am farming full time in west central Connecticut and enjoying the challenge. Look for River Bank Farm vegetables at farmers' markets around western Connecticut."

NANCY BOMBACI is studying for her Ph.D. in English at Fordham University in the Bronx.

JOHN CARTER is at the Naval postgraduate school in Monterey, Calif. pursuing a master of science degree in system technology (joint command, control and communications). He and Laura are expecting their second child in June.

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describes an improvisational comedy program which was being presented at Chicago's Organic Greenhouse. One of the stars of the two-person show is CHRIS HOGAN. PETER MATHIEU is a civil trial attorney in Providence, R.I. He was married on Sept. 7 to Christine Dahlquist.

Class Agents: Andrew C. Carlson Roberta L. Glaser

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Elizabeth Heslop Sheehy 7792 Willow Point Dr. Falls Church, Va. 22042

What has 45 heads, weighs 5\-S tons and eats Buffalo Wings for dinner? I can't believe I am opening this letter with a football joke - what has happened to me? The entire Capital City has gone crazy with Redskins' fever, and Tom and I have been swept up in the tide. For the first time ever, I actually know the players, the stats (and who's playing!). I even know all the words to "Hail to the Redskins."

How embarrassing.

Also in the news .. .! hope everyone was watching "Saturday Night Live" in early January, to catch the Tri-Delt skit, featuring a shot of The Quad at our own beloved Trinity.

Fine storyline, top-notch acting and spectacular scenery!

And now, the rest of the story.

News is rather scarce this month, so I'm stalling for time ... ah, space.

MAUREENHUGHESwinstheaward for first letter of the quarter. DR. Hughes 'Completed her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Tufts in 1990, after earning a master's in 1987. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at California Institute of Technology, working with the Sun Oil Company on petroleum research. Though Maureen is enjoying life in Pasadena (living on the Rose Bowl Parade route), she looks forward to moving back to the East Coast in April, as she will marry JIM MCALOON '85 in May. Jim works for The Travelers in Boston. Best wishes to you both (send pictures! ).

In the nuptial bliss department, JOE REID writes that he is "ECSTATIC" (emphasis his, but I do agree with it) to announce his engagement to JETSY TORRE. They plan an August wedding. Joe also notes that he is "enjoying bumping into so many Trin people here in Boston." Obviously a Massachusetts driver!

DAVID SCHNADIG tied the knot in September to Lori Roth (see Weddings ). In attendance were BILL MARKOWITZ, JAY GANGI, SCOTT MACCOLL, ERIC STEPPER, MARK MENENDEZ , DEBBIE NEVAS , MARILYN WEISS, and CRAIG '85 and KAY BURKE TATERONIS. Dave and Lori are living in Manhattan.

While some of us are goofing off and getting married, others are getting degrees. MARIANNE RYAN graduated from Yale Law School in 1991 and now practices trademark and copyright litigation at Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard and Geraldson, "an intellectual property boutique firm located in Chicago." Can

I assume this firm has nothing to do with smart shoppers?

LAURA SHIMSHIDlAN is currently an attorney with Yeager & Barrett in New York City. Laura, can you tell me what an "intellectual property boutique firm" is? (Law Quiz #17 .)

Another New York resident has graduated. GEORGE FRAISE received his M.B.A. in finance in 1990, and now works as theelectricalequipmentanalyst in the equity research department of Smith Barney in New York.

DOUGLAS KLINGER is another financial whiz from our class. As vice president and director ofPNC Financial Corp. and Provident Institutional Management Corporation, he is responsible for product R & D, and sales force management. He is also engaged to be married in April in Providence.

And finally , in the on-going saga of "Bantams in the Air," TOM and I had yetanotherencounterwithaTrinalum in the airport. We bumped into our own classmate, CLAIRE HEILMANN, on the plane from San Francisco to St. Louis at Christmas. Claire went out for an impromptu visit to the City by the Bay, and had a great time!

So long for now. Can't wait to find out whom we will run into on our next vacation! Go Rypien! Hail Victory!

Late-breaking news received in the alumni office: KENNETH ABERE is a first year law student at Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Ore. LISA DINNICK writes that she saw many '86 alums at some of the many weddings that took place last summer - namely, MEG RAUSCH's, ELIZABETH PEISHOFF's and SHELLEYWYCKOFF's. It was a great way to catch up with everyone!

Last August, DAVID FONTAINE traveled through much of Europe, returning home in mid-October when he started his current job. He's working in a 30-lawyer, Washington, D.C. firm that specializes in white-collar criminal defense work. His first case involves the representation of a Mississippi death row inmate who is pursuing a federal habeas petition.

KIM BETH REMICK ROTNER and her husband, Phil, are enjoying life in Cambridge, Mass. Kim is still employed by the North Shore Animal Hospital in Lynn, Mass. She treats primarily dogs and cats and an occasional bird and always welcomes new patients!

MEL FERNANDES JARVIS sent this news-filled letter to the alumni office: "Last summer, on July 27, 1991, I married Jonathan Jarvis (Cornell 1985). The service was held in the Trinity Chapel and was performed by Trinityite THE REV . WILLIAM EAKINS '66. Other Trinityites that helped us celebrate were GLENNA KING '86, RICH FORTE '85 and Professor Robert Stewart. Shortly after our honeymoon (in Bermuda), my husband moved to Germany to form a new division of his family's business. Fortunately, IBMgaveme a two-year leave of absence so that I could move here with him and still maintain my job when I return to the States. Life in Germany is fun , but definitely different. I am enrolled in an intensive Ger-

man language class and am learning the language quickly. Hopefully, I will be fluent in the next few months."

Class Agents: Doreen Rice Butler Jennifer F. Zydney Claire Slaughter Joyce

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Ellen Garrity 221 Ridgemede Rd. 11307 Baltimore, Md. 21210

KEVIN SMITH has written the following news about several classmates .

RANDY GRANGER happily reports the birth of his first child.

Catherine Ireland Granger was born in early August 1991. At around the same time, ROD BOGGS and BILL CUNNINGHAM were celebrating the first birthdayS" of their little ones.

I have moved to Boston and have started a new job with Marion Morrell Daw. GINNY VOGEL is also working with a pharmaceutical company. After taking almost a year off to travel, she is now back in Boston working for Bristol Myers Squibb.

For the third time in four years, TODD NIZOLEK has moved. He was recently promoted to a key accounts representative position with Deluxe Check Printers. He is now residing in New Jersey and commuting into NYC. PAT PATTERSON is working in Philadelphia in the realm of state politics while also having a successful tenure as a high school football coach. He was named 1990 coach of the year in his region. Congrats, Pat! Over last Fourth of July, DAN TIGHE, RICH O'NEIL and I rented a cottage on the Cape. During the week we were joined by ANDRE JOHN, Todd Nizolek, MIKE DONOVAN and TED SHANNON for deep sea fishing, fireworks and multiple cookouts.

JEFF USEWICK reports that he is still in Hartford with IBM as an account marketing representative. He is working hard but he and I still had time to do some fishing over the summer. Let the record show that Jeff consistently reeled in the bigger catch.

RICH NAGY is in his second year of coaching football at the University of Maine. He feels the best thing about his current job is hanging out in the thriving metropolis of Orono, Maine.

During the summer he also decided to put the pads on again for a semi-pro football game. He had a lot of fun , but he now feels he would be better off remaining on the sidelines as an observer and coach.

GABE HARRIS is in the D.C. area working in the marketing department at Advantage International. He is joined in the D.C. area by CHARLIE MCGANN and OLIVER CARR. ERICA LEWIS is working at Arthur D. Little in the environmental consulting area. Her office is in Cambridge but she is rarely there due to frequent business travel. She has also started to pursue a graduate degree at Tufts.

OnAug.17, PETERVOUDOURIS and BIZ HOSLER '88 were married in Cleveland. The Class of 1987 was well represented at the wedding. The occasion was a terrific time for many of us

to catch up on current events. LISA CADETTE DETWILER and BILL DETWILER are off to Michigan where Bill will be attending business school.

KATE RODGERS SMITH is also in Michigan where she is getting her master's in education.

INGRID KOTCH is starting medical school in the Philadelphia area after spending all winter and spring out in Colorado.

In the New York City crowd , SCOTT ZOELLNER and VIC CONSOLI are completing their MBAs and looking forward to when they will have some free time on their hands.

JOHN MONTGOMERY is having much success and fun working with Procter and Gamble as a unit manager. Thanks for all the news, Kevin!

The following Class members have written recently to the alumni office: DONNA MARIE JOYCE graduated from Georgetown Law last May and has relocated to North Haven, Conn.

GEOFF SIMPSON is a middler at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pa. Class Agents: Lisa Cadette Detwiler Hope A. Williams Michael P. Doyle

Reunion Chairs: Melissa Bronzino R. Kevin Smith Corinne N. Coppola 7500 Woodmont Ave. Apt. 316 Bethesda,Md.20814 SUSAN WINNICK DINIELLI has been promoted to loan review officer at Union Trust Company in Stamford, Conn.

MARIANNE ELDREDGE was married to John Evenhuis last September (see Weddings ). They honeymooned in Italy.

WENDY GOLDSTEIN has been promoted to account executive at Agnew, Carter, McCarthy, Inc. in Boston, Mass.

ANTHONY GROSSMAN is studying for his law degree at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, Calif.

KIMBERLY HOMINSKI is planning a July 1992 wedding (seeEngage路

ments).

MELISSA MOORE has moved to the Detroit area where she is a sales representative for Sara Lee, Corp. She writes that she's looking for a tennis partner!

MELISSA WINTER WEISS is attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass. She notes that husband, PETER, and KEN THOMAS '87 are still running Zip-Loc Recording Studios in Boston.

EMMYDOUGLISWHOOLEY was marriedlastNovember (see Weddings).

She writes that she and her husband have bought a house in Boxford, Mass. and that she is a training specialist with Boston Company.

Class Agents: John Lee Isobel C. Bonar Bruce A. Hauptfubrer Elizabeth E. Hardman

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ELEANOR (LISA) LLOYD '88 and Philip C. Timon were married on Aug. 24, 1991 in Watch Hill, R.I. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (front row, kneeling I. to r.) Edward B . lloyd '94, Malcolm B. Barlow '60, Michael DiSandro '86, Matthew Keator '88, Peter L. Barlow '89; (back row, I. tor.)

Robert C . Wallis '65,JenniferJames McHugh '88, groom, MorrisLioyd,Jr. ' 60, bride, Thomas Lloyd '62, David H. lloyd '88, David Lloyd ' 66, Virginia Spahr Keator '88, Erik B. Granade '85, Robert E . Darling, Jr. M '68, The Rev. Alexander Ogilby, Isabelle English H '88, James F. English, Jr. H ' 89.

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DONALD C . FREYTAG '88 and REBECCA S.JELSMA '88 were married onJune 29, 1991 in Louisville, Ky. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (front row, I. tor.) Tara Tracey '88, Biz Hosler Voudouris '88, Peter Voudouris ' 87, Matthew Keator '88, Beth Edelman '89, LauraJelsma ' 91, Cindy Lewis ' 89, DaveJessup ' 87, Lisa Cadette Detwiler '87, Isabelle Parsons Loring '87; (middle row, I. tor.)

Johannes Linthorst Homan ' 88, Pam Ingersoll '87, Anne Mongillo '88, Wendy Goldstein ' 88, groom, bride, Jennifer Brewster '88, Virginia Spahr Keator '88, Jennifer Blum '88, Virginia Vogel '87, Mollie Verbeck '90, Nan Campbell ' 89, Suzanne Curley '89; (top row, I. tor.) Scott Chisholm ' 87, Bob Farnham '88, Richard Freytag '86, Richard Freytag '55, Bill Howland '88, Dave McNaughton ' 88, Bill Detwiler '87, John Emery '89, John Montgomery ' 87, Ian Loring ' 88, Gavin Freytag '89, Jim Beakey '89, Andrea Cancio Meyercord '88, Greg Le Stage '88, Ed Meyercord '87, Rob Rei skin ' 88, Scott Akers ' 87.

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STEVEN]. PALMER '89 and Mary Moschetti were married onjune 15, 1991. Trinity alurnni/ae attending were: (front row, I. to r.)Jon Leary '89, Stephen Gorman '90, Ron York; (second row, I. tor.) Kris Gilson '89, Maja Lundborg '89, groom, bride,Jefi)acobson '89, Chris Leary '89; (third row, I. tor.) Devin Schlickmann '89, Paul Schlickmann '88, Shannon Sheehan, Jonah Cohen '89, Rich Maloney '89, Maryanne O'Donnell '89; (back row, I. tor.) Dan Sheehan '89, Ted Lyon '89.

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TRIP MANLEY '89 and MARIA NEVARES '91 were married on Aug. 10, 1991 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (back row, I. tor.) David Provost '88, Nani Marchand '87, Laura Gaines '92, Bill Kenney '88, Heather Watkins '91,John McDermott '92, Kevin Robinson '88, Jim Smith, Emily McCampbell '94, Jorge Rodriguez '91, Steve Valenti, Michael Anderson '88; (front row, I. to r.) Rob McCool '91, Jay Williamson '89, bride, groom, Todd DuBoef '90, Rachel Kroh '91, Camalia Valdes '94, Anne Nicholson '92.

Yuichi P. Lee 272 Court St. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231

Well, once again it is time for me to report the highlights about your fellow '89ers. By the time you are reading this report, I will be studying for the bar exam and having a horrible sum路 mer. I want to congratulate all those '89ers who will be graduating from graduate school this year and to all those who will be entering their advanced studies.

Law school bas been tough and I sympathize with you first year students whoarestartingrightnow. Good luck and may the years go smoothly.

To start, I am doing well in school and am now on the job hunt. From what I understand, the job market is bleak and the competition is fierce. I wish all you job hunters good luck, too.

My homeboy, JASON MANSKE, has been traveling the world for his bank and trying to find ways to get more money from the third world nations. Recently he came back from London for a pow-wow and is expected to go back in February.

At the same bank, YANI KWEE began her M.B.A. studies at N.Y. U. in January. She is hoping to catch ROBERT CUMMINGS in some of her classes in the future . Rob is now in his second year at N.Y.U. and resides in Morristown, N.J. Rob is still an AT&T bigwig.

Still in Brooklyn, Jason and I still get together with DEIRDRE IVES (Cuevas) and KATHY ELLIS on occasion, and share some Triillty moments.

Yes, like many other alumni, we still talk about our days at Camp TrinTrin. There's nothing to be ashamed of. So if you find yourself talking about the old days, you know you are in good company.

Several months ago, while traveling back to Trinity for Homecoming, I had the opportunity to see some of the new buildings that were constructed after we graduated. I have to admit that the new computer center is something else. The interior of the building is impressive. The Smith House is simply amazing. Even Ferris Athletic Center is being refitted to grow with the times. If you have not been back, I suggest you plan a stopover in Hartford to see these new constructions.

Things have surely changed since we departed.

The showing of '89ers for Homecoming was small and unimpressive, but then maybe I was too cold to notice.

However, I was at the tailgate in the parking lot and I did notice that most of the young alums stayed near the grills and the kegs rather than watching the game. And then maybe it was just me who hung out at the annual Sigma Nu tailgate get-together too long to notice anything else. It was great seeing the old brothers and new mingle.

Whose ever jeep it was sitting out

there, sorry for the "rust" spots, dude.

So, to continue, there were a small handful of '89ers contacting me this time. The most notable letter was from an extremely happy STEVEN PALMER. He was married to Mary Moschetti on June 15, 1991. He enclosed a photo with his note which appears elsewhere in this issue. Steve is now an electrical service engineer with the Beloit Lenox Division, a manufacturer of large scale industrial paper-making machinery. He and Mary recently purchased a home in Enfield, Conn. where they plan to raise little Steves and Marys.

Steve also noted in his letter than DAN SHEEHAN was also recently married to the lovely Shannon Casey.

Congratulations to both of the newlywed couples.

Talking about marriages, I was reading the weddings section of The New York Times one morning (Jan .

19, 1992, to be exact) and saw a picture of NANCY CAMPBELL. Nan had announced her engagement to William Bussey, but no wedding date was given.

My next letter came from SOPHIE WADSWORTH. She reports from the Pacific Northwest coast in the State of Washington. Sophie is an upper school teacher at a prestigious boarding school (The Anne Wright School) in Tacoma where she teaches high school girls English and geography.

She enjoys the lush and green mountains of the Northwest and finds it invigorating and exciting to learn from teenagers. I think s he has found her little niche in the world.

Way back in October '91, I was fortunate enough to receive a letter from KIMBERLY JONES. Kim received a master's in Latin American Studies, with departmental honors, from UCLA. In September '91, she started the Ph.D. program in history at UCLA. She noted that Los Angeles was getting a little too slow for her and she might be returning to the fast life of the East Coast.

In a surprising Christmas card from VINCENT DINOSO , he reported that he is now attending graduate school at the University of Chicago. He earned his master's in classics at University of Chicago in June of'91 and is looking forward to completing his Ph.D. in classics there, also. Vinnie stated that he plans to decipher the ancient scrolls in Greece so he may be forever remembered as a constellation in the stars.

Also in a card, TODD GILLESPIE reports from New Jersey. He was finishing up a long project he was doing there for Andersen Consultants and headed back to Hartford in February.

Todd reports that ALLISON BROWN is still in Bangkok, teaching English to Thai children. He also reported that DONNA HAGIDGHAT has returned from Europe where she studied a semester of Jaw. Like me, she is also looking forward to completing Jaw

<Ill ANNE H. BENNETT '90 and Kenneth S. Keyes were married on May 18, 1991 in Wayland, Mass. Trinity alumni/ae attending were: (bottom row, I. tor. )Jeanette Edelstein '90, Laura Kearney '90, Susannah Brown '89, Ngoc Dung Ho '90; (top row, I. tor.) Suzanne Carroll '90, Cara Matthews '90, bride, groom, Elizabeth Hale '90, Carolyn Boylan '90, Eric Lorenzini '90.

school. In a final note, Todd reported that DAVID HSIAO has returned to the East from San Francisco and is now looking at graduate schools.

In an informative letter, JON COX wanted to let us know that he is now an analyst with McManus & Miles in New York and has found a new place of residence. Thanks, Jon .

Next, I received a report from Shawmut National Corporation that JOHN A. GERMAIN has been promoted to loan officer with the commercial banldng division. He will be responsible for developing new business and managing a portfolio of accounts.

Also being promoted is THAVONE VORACHACK-WASHER. She is now the personal loan representative for CNB in Connecticut. Her latest position moves her to Glastonbury, Conn. where the people are much nicer and the lawns are greener. Even though her commute is a little longer, it is a rather pleasant town.

From the Trinity alumni office, I found several notes left behind by certain '89ers. JULIANA LOWRY announced she will be getting married in May 1992. Presently she resides in Plainville, Conn. LYDIA BABBITT announced that she was married in January 1992 to Robert Besescheck.

Lydia is the employment training specialist with Favarh Co. Congrats on your marriage , Lydia. NICOLE JOHNSON has been extremely active in 1991. She earned an M.A. at Middlebury and is now working and studying toward her M.F.A. in New York.

The alumni office also received a very interesting letter from SHELLEY MATHEWS, who graduated with a double major in Russian and economics. "In July of 1991 I left my job as marketing associate at PlanE con, Inc., a Washington,D.C.-based research and consulting company on the Russian and East European economies. I did an auto tour with my father and sister through Southern Africa during the month of August and in September drove from my parents' home in Wilmington, Del. across the country to my new residence in Seattle.

"I job hunted September to October in the field of Russian-American trade and at the end of October began working for Far East Trading Company, a Seattle-based trading company that works specifically with the Russian Far East. The company acts as a purchasing agent for Russian enterprises who wish to buy American goods for hard currency, and as representatives for American companies interested in establishing a market presence in the Russian Far East. In December I traveled to Russia for one week to present an American business training program to our employees in Vladivostok."

Finally, I received a note from STANISLAUS WHITTLESEY who happens to be doing something (studying or working) at SUNY in Binghamton, N.Y. He reported a fellow '89er, VICTORIA CLAWSON, had appeared in his campus newspaper for blasting the Clarence Thomas hearing. Victoria is a law student at Yale, and oh yes, a member of Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.

At last, we come to the conclusion

of this report. There are rumors that AVACHAI "AT" TAYJASANANT is leaving his plushy job at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and the world of international playboyism to return stateside to attend graduate school. He gets to take his last joy ride on the corporate yacht before he embarks on the long and lonely road of an MBAer. Also, don't forget to contact your gossipy Secretary.

Class Agents: Donna F. Haghighat Joshua M. Bewlay Gina M. Tarallo 215A South St. Quincy, Mass. 02169 Hey, sports fans , guess what day it is? It's Super Bowl Sunday! My personal pick is the Washington Redskins, and as I write this, they are going into halftime with a 24 point lead. Aah , now I can turn down the volume on the tube for a little while , relax , and write my article. So, while you are all sitting like super couch potatoes with chips and a sixpack (or case) in hand , I'm writing about you. By the time you have a chance to see this, though, we'll be deep in the heart of baseball season and watching some other choice game.

(Go Sox ... ) Well, it appears as if you all have forgotten to write to me. I have heard virtually nothing about anyone in the last few months. Gossip tends to find me, either by itself, or via my very informative friends. This winter, however, no one had anything "new and exciting" to tell me. I hope this is an indication that you all have been behaving yourselves. If you're not, well, you know whom to call. Please keep in touch with me, even if it is just to tell me that you are doing the same thing.

I want to know what's up. You can even bother me at work (617) 494-1770 or fax: (617 ) 225-0669.

GAB IN RUBIN recently finished her first semester at Suffolk Law School on Beacon Hill in Boston. She celebrated in the true Rubin style with a party, what else? SUSAN MONACO, LISA TOMLINSON and I were there , along with JEN HORESTA and SUE GOUVEIA, both members of the Class of '91. We mingled with the law school students for a bit and found out what life is like on the other side.

Lisa Tomlinson recently moved back to Albany for a brief stay at home.

She is taking an English graduate course at SUNY Albany and temping to save for grad school. Willy is applying to Boston University and plans to get a master's in journalism in the near future.

Jen Horesta and Sue Gouveia are roommates in Brighton, Mass. Jen is a legal assistant at Ring, Rudnik and Gralfay in the city, and Sue is a first-year law student at Boston College Law. MEG WATTERS is leaving Boston for the summer to do an archeological dig in Greece. She is quitting her job to follow her love - archeology.

RON GOODMAN recently got a new job as a staff accountant at Bernard Johnson in Danvers, Mass. He also applied for a job with the FBI, to

give his life a little excitement, just in case accounting isn't enough.

MELISSA GOLD faxed me some great news about life in New York. She is currently in her second year at Cordoza School of Law in the Village.

She is concentrating her studies in entertainment law, specifically the music industry. Melissa describes her internship with NBC's litigation department as "fantastic!" For a lunch break, she hops down a floor in the building to watch Saturday Night Live rehearsals and has had the chance to see stars like David Bowie, Mariah Carey and Steve Martin!

Melissa frequently sees CHRISTINE DISTEFANO, who is still employed at Vogue Magazine and gives her all the scoop on the supermodels.

She has also run into both SCOTT GOLDSMITH and STEVE WEINSTEIN. Steve is in his second year at NYU Law School.

Melissa also reports that SHARON SIMKISS is plugging through her second year oflaw school at Temple University in Philadelphia. For New Year's Eve, Melissa, Christine and Sharon attended a black-tie affair at Lincoln Center with many other Trinity alums.

Thanks for all of the great news, Melissa. Please keep it up. I appreciate the help, as well as hearing about you guys!

BETH (SHEBA ) CLIFFORD writes that she recently began student teaching at Manhattanville in Purchase, N.Y. She is working toward her certification in elementary education.

Sheba recently visited the Kappa contingent out in Boston and had "loads of fun."

STUART MELTZER writes from Los Angeles, Calif., where he is an agent trainee at Creative Artists Agency. He is the assistant to Todd Smith in the motion picture talent department. Some of Todd's clients are Holly Hunter, Sean Penn, Jimmy Smits, Keanu Reaves and Prince. He said he saw a wedding picture of his old roommate, BILL SULLIVAN, and he asked "Why?" I'm not sure what exactly he meant by that comment, but I know he was delving deeper than the thoughts of a beer commercial.

The idea comes to mind that we are all getting to be "that age" where our friends get married, have kids, etc.

AAAAH!!

DAWN BROWNE recently got a new job as an assistant buyer at Tiffany & Co. in the City. She is working alongside KAITLIN MCDERMOTT '91 in corporate jewelry doing both corporate and specialty orders. She plans to go to Gemological Institute to study the formation of diamonds .

She will be taking a series of classes encouraged by the company to make the employees more knowledgeable while handling the merchandise.

Dawn has run into MIKE CAVANAUGH and JIM MURPHY in the City, both of whom plan to go to business school next fall.

DAVE FERRUCCI '89 plans to take off a few months from work to vacation in New Zealand and Australia. Then he plans to visit TIM BRITTON '91and GRANT WASHBURN in San Francisco. Grant interned with a movie production company in San Fran, and

recently was hired by them . BILL VIVIAN '92 and BOYCE BUGLIARI are traveling across country to California, as well .

ELIZABETH FLAMMIA is working hard and enjoying life as a manager at Baybank, a sound financial institution , if I do say so myself. Hey Flam, how're my investments doing?

BARBARA GINTY is studying for her master's in psychology at University of Connecticut. She is looking for a job in social work. Good luck, Babs!

RUSSELL OSTERMAN writes from Houston, Texas, where he is working for his family business, International Polymer Services, a division of Osterman & Company, Inc. He is employed in the office which handles all foreign business and exports.

KRISTIN CUMMINGS is enjoying her job at the Bank of Boston in Waterbury, Conn. She is working in the lending sector andawaitingto hear from a transfer to the New Haven branch.

Well, that's really all , folks. As for myself, I recently interviewed for a promotion at work, as a project coordinator (a managerial type position with a very nice salary). Yes, I'm trying quite hard to climb up that (very high) corporate ladder. Wish me good luck, because I'm definitely going to need it.

I also have future plans to apply to business school in the Boston area. An English major in business school... we'll have to wait and see how that one turns out. Anyway, enough about that.

Please don't forget to write or call to tell me what's new in your lives. See you in the Spring!

Recently, the alumni office has received the following "new" news: PHOEBE SYLVESTER will be in Kuwait with KPGN Peat Marwick until mid-June. She will then relocate to New York City.

SANTIAGO VICENTE, a volunteer at the Medical Research Laboratory at Hartford Hospital , has been notified that his research paper, "A High-performance Liquidatio!} Chromatography (HPLC) Method with an Ultrafiltration Procedure for the Determination of Ciprofloxacin and Norfloxacin in Human White Blood Cells," was accepted for presentation in March at the Pittcon '92 Analytical Chemistry Conference in New Orleans.

SAMUEL POTTER is living in West Haven, Conn. and working at Long Wharf Theater.

SANNA MARSHALL writes that she and JEFF RENDERER are preparing for their upcoming wedding.

She says that Jeff continues to work hard at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and that they have seen TERRELL SMITH in Washington , D.C. quite often.

Class Agents: Todd Coopee Suzanne E. Carroll Alexis Brashich Seana Hayden 225 Berkeley Pl. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217 Hello again from Brooklyn. Not too much news here. My work at McGrawHill is not very fulfilling, but I like the

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people in my office, so somehow that makes it all right. I am beginning to think tentatively about leaving the City, but dread the job search process.

I like Park Slope a lot, but don't really like Manhattan, and I dream of heading west. In the meantime, though, ROBIN HALPERN and I have been helping out with events for the Trinity Club of New York and are hoping to revive the Young Alumni Club. Hopefully, by the time that this is printed in the spring, we will have had several events!

My mailbox has been woefully empty of Trinity news, but a few people did drop me notes. From Washington, D.C., LOUISE VAN DER DOES wrote that she is living with KIM NUZUM on Capitol Hill and loving it. Louise is a research associate for the Defense Budget Project and researches next generation, military hardware purchase plans. She is thinking about grad school in the near future. Me, too.

PATRICK MCCABE wrote me just after Christmas to tell me about his plans. After spending the summer and fall playing and coaching soccer and working at the Gap, he left for South Africa just before the new year to teach and coach soccer at a boarding school there for a year.

MATT FREEMAN began teaching in Zimbabwe in January, also, and Patrick plans to meet up with him.

When he is finished teaching, he plans to travel from top to bottom in Africa, then go across Europe, playing soccer along the way. When he's finished with all that, he thinks he'll come home and move to the West Coast. He also told me (this was a substantial letter) that he had a party before Christmas and JOHN RAMSEY, STEPHANIE VAUGHN , JOIA SCULLY, KATHERINE HEWITT , TIM CALLAHAN '90, HEIDI WISBACH '90 and DEB GLEW '90 all attended.

John Ramsey is now working at Suffolk Downs, outside of Boston, doing something along the lines of sports administration there. He is hoping to move into marketing and advertising, so I hear. I spoke with Stephanie Vaughn very briefly around Christmas time, but unfortunately, she had laryngitis (thank goodness for spell checker) so she had to whisper the whole time. She is living in Brookline and working at a law firm, still considering law school in the future. She had recently talked to PETE CRAM who is still up in Burlington, Vt. trying to get straight A's so that he can get into the best med school.

MARGARET LOWANCE is also living in Brookline, I heard, and is working for Baybank of Boston as a credit analyst.

KATE BRENNAN wrote to the alumni office in December to say that she is enrolled in a Ph.D. program for cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. More important, however, she wrote that she and MICHAEL ERSEVIM are engaged! Congratulations, Kate and Michael! They have not planned a date yet and I have no news as to what Michael is doing. The alumni office also let me know that VERA HILL is a loan clerk at Great Barrington Savings Bank in Great Barrington, Mass.

In Connecticut, TOBY NORRIS is working for an insurance company, so I am told. MARK STEVENSON was traveling around the country, but is now back in Connecticut. His brother, JOHN STEVENSON, can be found on campus at Trinity taking graduate courses. CAMERON BILLER is also back at school, finishing up, after spending some time in California.

SUMEET CHANDRA is living in the Hartford area and pursuing a career in dance.

I've heard that LIZ HEALY is now back from London and is looking for jobs in the film industry (not an easy task). She went to STEVE DRUCKMAN's New Year's Eve party in Manhattan as did Robin Halpern (my source for this gossip), ANDREA HIRSHON , DAN ALTER, DITAS MAURICIO, and others (my source ran out ... ). Andrea Hirshon is still working on the launch of a new magazine and is living on the Upper East Side with a friend from Stamford, Conn.

Hi , Lauren! Robin Halpern recently bumped into JON SMITH on the East Side. John spent five months in Thailand this fall and is now staying with CHANDLER BIGELOW. Chandler is working at aPR firm. As for other New York news, DEB DWORKIN , my alumni office source, told me that ERICA HALL is moving to the Big Apple soon.

I also learned recently that BLAIR ROSSHEIM is studying art therapy in West Virginia. I was a volunteer in both a music therapy and art therapy class for mentally handicapped and autistic children in high school. Having no talent myself, I did not pursue this as a career... ! think that's neat, Blair, and I hope you don't mind that I just told everyone else about your plans (and I hope that this grapevine news is really true!).

Well, I hope some more people drop me notes for the news Reporter. Until then, take care and Happy Spring!

Class Agents: Patricia Anne Canavan Dudley Stuart Blossom IV

MASTER'S 1959 RICHARD WHITE writes that he expected his novel, Mister Grey, would be published in March. The book is set in Wyoming in the 1880s and is the story of a friendship gone wrong between a motherless boy and a black schoolmaster- who is not just a schoolmaster. A major figure from the pages of American literature makes a morethan-cameo appearance. The book, White's second novel, is published by Four Walls Eight Windows, N.Y. His first novel, Sword of the North, was published by Pegma Books in 1983. It is based on the well documented preColumbian voyage of Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, to Canada and New England. BBC is preparing a documentary of the expedition for airing this fall. Richard teaches English,journalism and creative writing at Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua, N.H. He "remembers Trinity and John Dando with an affection 'age cannot wither.'"

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Judy Winer IDP '86 73 Vernon St. Hartford, Conn.

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If you haven't already sent in your reservations for Reunion, June 11-14, it's not too late. Don't miss this special

opportunity to get together with others who have shared the unique experience which is IDP! Class Agent: Anita Makar IDP '90

Reunion Chairs: Judy Winer IDP '86 Mimi Burns IDP '87

In Memory

JOSEPH POST, 1923 Joseph Post of Front Royal, Va. died on Oct. 6, 1991. He was 98.

Born in Hu"ngary, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1910 and within two years had become an apprentice pharmacist.

In 1914 he joined the American Army and served as a soldier in the Medical Corps.

He received his B.S. degree from Trinity in 1923 and subsequently attended Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Md. In 1925 he opened his own drugstore in Wallingford, Conn.

Later he moved to Virginia, retiring from Nichols Drug in Fredericksburg at the age of 82.

A member of the Knights of Columbus, he had also been a member of St. John's Catholic Church in Front Royal for many years.

He leaves his wife, Charlotte Post, ofFront Royal, Va.; a daugther-in-law, Judith; a son, Kenneth; and a brother.

KENNETH DANFORTH SMITH, 1925 Kenneth D. Smith of Cooperstown, N.Y. died on March 1, 1991. Hewas89.

Born in Danbury, Conn., he graduated from high school there before attendingTrinity with the Class of1925.

At Trinity he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

He began his newspaper career as a copy boy and reporter for The New York Evening Mail . While a student at Trinity he worked for The Hartford Courant as a state news reporter and s portswriter.

From 1925-1932 he covered sports for The New York Graphic. He was a baseball and football writer for The New York Mirror from 1932-1963.

During his New York newspaper career, which spanned 38 years, he covered the Dodgers, the Giants, the Yankees and the New York football Giants.

He also served as secretary of the Baseball Writers Association of America for 19 years and as director oftheNewYorkWritersAnnualShow for 15 years.

With the demise of The New York Mirror in 1963, he joined the Baseball Hall of Fame and was with the museum until his retirement in 1979, serving as director for most of that period.

He authored two books, Baseball's Hall of Fame , and The Willie Mays Story.

A loyal Trinity alumnus, he received a citation in recognition of his accomplishments on the occasion of his 30th Reunion.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown and the Baseball Writers Association of America.

An accomplished musician, he sang in the chorus for various Glimmerglass opera productions in Cooperstown.

Surviving are his wife, Emilie Bolin Smith, of Cooperstown, N.Y.; and a nephew.

HERBERT SMITH MINER, 1927, M.S. 1928 Herbert S. Miner of St. Petersburg, Fla. died on Jan . 31, 1992. He was 89.

Born in East Hartford, Conn., he graduated from high school there before attending Trinity where he received his B.S. degree in 1927 and his M.S. degree in 1928.

He was an engineer at the Southern New England Telephone Company for35years,retiringto Florida in 1963.

A member of the Telephone Pioneers, he had been an Eagle Scout with Troop 1 in East Hartford, and was also a scoutmaster for 12 years. He was East District Commissioner of the Charter Oak Council, B.S.A. He was a member of the First Congregational Church and Orient Lodge 62 AF&AM, both in East Hartford.

He leaves two nephews, Alan Miner, of South Glastonbury, Conn., and Norman Miner, of Farmington, Conn.; and niece, Elaine Small, of Vernon, Conn.

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JAMES ALLAN BREED, 1931 J . Allan Breed of Wethersfield, Conn. and Fort Myers, Fla. died of heart failure on Jan. 16, 1992. He was 82.

Born in Hartford, Conn., he graduated from Weaver High School in that city before attending Trinity where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and the Sophomore Dining Club. He received his B.S. degree in 1932.

Among his places of employment were the Coca Cola Company, the Seven Up Company and Hartford Hospital. Prior to his retirement, he worked as a proofreader for Connecticut Print-

ers, formerly Case, Lockwood and Brainard.

He leaves his wife, Elizabeth Lundy Breed, ofWethersfield, Conn. and Fort Myers, Fla.; a son, James A., Jr., of Wethersfield, Conn.; two grandsons; and a sister.

WILLIAM LOUIS WALLBANK, 1931 William L. Wallbank of Toledo, Ohio died of a stroke on Aug. 25 , 1991.

He was 81.

Born in New Castle, Pa., he graduated from Rutland High School in Rutland, Vt. before attending Trinity where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his B.S. degree in 1931. In 1935 he received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School.

In 1939 he became superintendent ofthe North Dakota State Tuberculosis Sanitorium. Until its closing, he held the same position in Toledo's William Roche Memorial Hospital.

During World War II the federal government sent refugees from around the world to North Dakota at Dr. Wallbank's insistence, and he helped them find jobs and housing.

Although he retired in 1971, he left retirement to become staff physician at the Toledo State Hospital and then at Riverside Hospital. In 1985 he was honored for practicing medicine for 50 years. Until recently, he attended Riverside Hospital's twice-weekly continuing education lectures which explored various current medical topics.

He was a member of the Ohio Medical Association and the Toledo Academy of Medicine.

A 32nd degree Mason, he was also a member of the Park Congregational Church and sang in the choir for many years. He was an avid angler and a Lifetime Master Pistol Shooter.

He had been past president of the Libbey High School and Beverly School Parent Teacher Associations and received numerous professional, community and sporting awards and tributes.

He leaves his Wife, Dorothy Carlson Wallbank, of Toledo; two sons, John W., and Peter F., ofToldeo; two daughters, Christine Lonsway, of Waterville, Ohio, and Eleanor McCreery, of Perrysburg, Ohio; and four grandchildren.

JOHN ALBERT AMPORT, 1935 John A. Amport of Madison, Conn. died on March 4, 1991. He was 78.

Born in Philadelphia, Pa., he graduated from Frankford High School there before attending Trinity where he was a member of Delta Phi fra ternity and on the football and baseball teams. He captained the baseball team his senior year. He received his B.S. degree in 1935.

From 1935-1975 he worked for General Electric Co. in financial and distribution managerial positions.

He was a member of the Madison Beach Club, the Madison Winter Club, the Madison Country Club and St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.

He leaves his wife, Lillian Lamberg Am port, ofMadison, Conn.; a son, John, of Wilton, Conn.; two daughters, Karen Peterson , of Farmington, Conn., and Judy Cook, of Wilton, Conn.; seven grandchildren ; and two great-grandchildren.

KARL GRANT GLAHN, 1935 Karl G. Glahn of Wethersfield, Conn. died on Dec. 29, 1991. He was 78.

Born in Ilion , N.Y., he graduated from Wethersfield High School before attending Trinity with the Class of 1935.

For many years, he owned and operated the Aetna Stamp and Engraving Co. in Hartford, retiring in 1980.

He was a member and past president of the Wethersfield-Rocky Hill Rotary Club, a member of Hospitality Lodge No. 128 AF&AM, Wethersfield, and a World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy.

He is survived by his wife, Marie James Glahn, of Wethersfield, Conn.; a daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and John R. Ward, of Virginia Beach, Va. ; and a grandson.

STUART EDWARD PHELPS, 1936 Stuart E. Phelps of Canton, Conn. died on Dec. 16, 1991. He was 77.

Born in Farmington, Conn., he graduated from South Kent School in South Kent, Conn. before attending Trinity with the Class of 1936.

For many years he was employed as a production manager at Madison Silencer in Hartford, which later became part of Emhart.

He was a member and Past Master of Evening Star Masonic Lodge No. 101, Unionville.

Surviving are his wife , Alice Mitchell Phelps, of Canton, Conn.; two sons, Stuart E. , of Belfast, Maine, and Bruce R. II, ofNew Hartford, Conn.; a brother; two sisters; three grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

JOHN CARTER ROWLEY, JR., 1939 John C. Rowley, Jr. ofDenver, Colo. died on Dec. 8, 1991. He was 76.

Born in Hartford, Conn., he graduated from Kingswood School in West Hartford, Conn. and attended Harvard University before attending Trinity with the Class of 1939.

Survivors include a son, John C. III, and two daughters, Katharine Hevron and Karen Jones, all of Colorado; a brother; two sisters; and three grandchildren.

RAYMOND WALKLEY WILLIAMSON, 1941 Raymond W. Williamson of Agawam, Mass. died on Oct. 9, 1991.

He was 72.

Born in Hartford, Conn. , he graduated from Mount Hermon School in Mount Hermon, Mass. before attending Trinity where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, the Senate and the soccer team. He received his B.A. degree in 1941. In 1950 he received his M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts.

For 31 years he was an educator.

He had been an English teacher and vice principal at West Springfield High School in West Springfield, Mass.

He was very active in area Masonic organizations and had been active also in the Mittineague United Methodist Church in West Spring-

field , Mass.

He leaves his wife, Mavis Ricker Williamson, of Agawam , Mass.; two sons, Lt. Cmdr. David C., of Severn, Md. , and RobertP. , ofWestfield, Mass.; a daughter, Marcia Wakeling, of Randolph, Mass. ; a sister; and five grandchildren.

Colhoun , of Fairfield, Conn.; a son, Stephen Colhoun , ofMadison, Conn.; four daughters , Dianne Bush and Julie Colhoun, both ofN ew York City, Lynn Colhoun, of Basalt, Colo., and Gillian Colhoun , of Fairfield, Conn.; and a brother.

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ROBERT WILLIAM GUNSHANAN, 1943 Robert W. Gunshanan of Suffield, Conn. died on Jan. 2, 1992. He was 70.

Born in Hartford, Conn., he graduated from Hartford Public High School before attending Trinity where hereceived his B.S. degree in 1947.

ANavyveteranofWorld War II, he had been employed by U.S. Electrical Motors for over 40 years.

He was past president and curator of the Suffield Historical Society, past chairman of the Suffield Police Commission, former member of the Suffield Fire Commission , the Suffield Lions Club, the Granby Republican Town Committee and an honorary member of the Suffield Republican Town Committee. He was also a communicant of.Sacred Heart Church, Suffield.

He leaves his wife, Irene Ricard Gunshanan, of Suffield, Conn.; three daughters, Gail Walsh, of Hoboken, N.J ., Margaret Simhai, ofDevil's Lake, N .D. and Nancy Gunshanan, of Hingham, Mass.; and four grandchildren.

STEPHEN DUNCAN COLHOUN, JR. 1944 Stephen D. Colhoun of Fairfield, Conn. died of cancer on June 10, 1991.

He was 69.

Born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., he graduated from Interdale School in Palo Alto, Calif. before attending Trinity with the Class of 1944. At Trinity he was a member of Delta Psi fraternity. He also attended Stanford University.

A photographer, he became known in the late 1940s for revolutionizing fashion photography through his u se of the bounce strobe.

Heworkedforsuchmagazinesas Vogue (the United States and British editions), Town and Country , Harper's Bazaar, Glamour and Paris Match, as well as Mademoiselle. Additionally, he specialized in portraiture, with assignments for Fortune magazine, and exhibited his work widely.

As a philanthropist, he focused on organizations and agencies concerned with helping and educating those with disabilities. He was a founderofCLASP (Community League Advocates for Special People ) group homes in Westport, Conn. and of the Eagle Hill School for children with learning disabiliti e s i n Greenwich and the Southport section of Fairfield, serving a s a board member.

He had served on the board of the Kennedy Center, Inc. in Bridgeport, a vocational rehabilitation facility for people with disabilities. In 1987, he was instrumental in the development of its restaurant and catering service, Soups and Such, in downtown Bridgeport; he helped develop its art program.

He leaves his wife, Mary Bushnell

R. Stuart Holden of Glastonbury, Conn. died on Jan . 11 , 1992. He was 62.

BominEnglewood, N.J. ,hegraduated from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Conn. before attending Trinity where he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity and the varsity football and basketball teams. He received his B.S. degree in 1950.

He began working with Keeney Manufacturing Co. in Newington , Conn. in 1952 and was named president in 1960. He established Plumb Pak Corporation in 1970, Duracraft Plastics Inc. in 1971 and Tubular Industries of Canada in 1976. All four companies merged and became a part of United Plumbing Technologies. He holds numerous plumbing-related U.S. patents.

He was a charter corporator of Newington Children's Hospital and a corporator of Hartford Hospital.

He was also a 32nd-degree Mason of Hospitality Lodge No. 128 AF&AM in Wethersfield, a former member of the Newington Rotary Club, a former member and past president of the Wethersfield Rotary Club and a member of the American Legion. He was a member of the Wethersfield Country Club and the Wequasset Country Club on Cape Cod. He was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War. He leaves his wife, Jean Hanna Holden, of Glastonbury, Conn.; two sons, R. Stuart, of Glastonbury, and James H. , of Marlborough , Conn.; two daughters, Virginia Atkins , of Wethersfield, Conn. , and Jessica A. Holden, of Alexandria, Va.; a brother; and nine grandchildren.

JOSEPH ANDREW REKAS, 1950 Joseph A. Rekas of West Hartford, Conn. died on Dec. 26, 1991. He was 65.

Born in Hartford, Conn., he graduated from Hall High School in West Hartford, Conn. before attendingTrinity where he received his B.S. degree in 1950.

An Air Force veteran ofWorld War II, he had held the position of secretary of the Viking Bakery Co. of West Hartford for the past 11 years.

Past president of the Exchange Club of West Hartford, he was also a member of the Country Club of Farmington, Conn. and St. Thomas the Apostle Church of West Hartford.

H e leaves his wife , Lillian Marcuson Rekas, of West Hartford; two sons, Gary J ., of Florida, and Robe.r t A. , of West Hartford; a daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Thomas Hafey, of Torrington, Conn.; four sisters; and a granddaughter.

JOHN ELLIOTT FUREY, 1951 John E. Furey of Windsor Locks, Conn. died on Dec. 23, 1991. He was 63.

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Born in Hartford, Conn., he graduated from Bulkeley High School there before attending Trinity where he received his B.S. degree in 1951.

He was a captain in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict and later served in the Air Force National Guard.

He had been employed at the Aetna Life & Casualty Co. in Hartford for 36 years, retiring as a chief life underwriter last year.

He had served on the Windsor Locks Fire Commission from 19621973 and also on the Zoning Board of Appeals.

Surviving are a son, Thomas M., of Windsor Locks; a daughter, Janice M., of Springfield, Mass.; a brother; and two grandchildren.

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Robert J . Gillooly of North Haven, Conn. died on Jan. 21, 1992 after a long illness. He was 59.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he graduated from Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn . before attending Trinity where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, Pi Gamma Mu honorary society, the baseball, swimming and golf teams, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his B.A. degree in 1954. In 1957 he received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School.

From 1957 to 1961 he was an associate in the law firm of O'Keefe, Johnson & O'Keefe. He became a partner in he law firm of O'Keefe, Gillooly & Votto in 1961. From 1964 to 1974 he was associated with Gillooly, Eastman & McGrail. He became president of Gillooly, McGrail & Carroll in 1974.

He was a member of the New Haven and Connecticut Bar Associations, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Sacred Heart Academy Advisory Board, the New Haven Country Club and a former member of the Quinnipiack Club.

Surviving are his wife, Marie Clancy Gillooly, ofNorth Haven, Conn.; four daughters, Claire G. Rose and Ellen Gillooly, both of North Haven, Conn.; Sheila M. Gillooly '84, of New York, and Elisabeth M. Gillooly, of Branford, Conn.; a son, Dennis W. Gillooly '82, of North Haven, Conn.; and three grandchildren.

RICHARD PHILIP EWALD, 1957 Richard P. Ewald ofVernon, Conn. died on Jan. 31, 1992. He was 56.

Born in Bristol, Conn., he graduated from Plainville High School in Plainville, Conn. before attendingTrinity where he was a member of Delta Phi fraternity . He received his B.A. degree in 1957.

A veteran of the U.S. Army, he had been a teacher at Illing Junior High School in Manchester, Conn. for over 30 years.

He was an active member of the Vernon Youth Soccer Association, the Rockville Little League and the First Congregational Church of Vernon. He was also affiliated with the Connecticut Education Association.

He leaves his wife, Lynda Hazen Ewald, of Vernon, Conn.; his mother, Ruth Ewald, of Plainville, Conn. ; a son, Thomas; and a daughter, Karen; both at home.

JOSEPH LEON REINHARDT, 1968 Joseph L. Reinhardt of Winter Park, Fla. died on Feb. 7, 1992. He was 45.

Born in Hartford, he graduated from The Gilbert School in Winsted , Conn. before attending Trinity where he was a member of Phi Mu Delta fraternity, the Glee Club, the Jesters and WRTC-FM . He received his B.A. degree in 1968. He subsequently attended Stetson College in Deland, Fla. After graduation from Trinity he joined the Peace Corps and served in the Philippines. He had been a professor at Seminole Community College in Sanford, Fla. An active Trinity alumnus, he served as secretary of the Class of 1968 for several years.

He was a member of the Bach Festival Chorus in Winter Park, Fla. Surviving are his parents, Norman and Marguerite Reinhardt, ofWinsted, Conn.; and a sister, Anne, of Florida, N .Y. MICHAEL JONATHAN CAMPO, 1980 Michael J. Campo, formerly ofWest Hartford, Conn., died in Boston, Mass. on Jan. 21,1992 after a long illness. He was 33.

Born in Hartford, he graduated from Conard High School in West Hartford before attending Trinity where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated with honors in art history, receiving his B.A. degree in 1981.

He studied film at New York University and worked on several films , including Flamingo Kid. He received a master's degree in architecture from Rice University in Houston, Texas and practiced architecture with several firms in Houston , Cambridge and Boston. He contributed to various projects, including a residence in Houston featured in Architectural Digest, a mixed-use complex in Providence, R.I. and a renovation atM. LT. which won the Boston Society of Architects 1991 Award for best interior renovation.

He leaves his parents, Professor and Mrs. Michael R. Campo '48, of West Hartford; his sisters, Francesca '82, ofBoston, Mass., and Lisa, ofWest Hartford; and a brother, Stephen, of Hartford.

VASILEA MICHELE ECONOMOS, 1985 Vasilea (Lea) Economos of West Hartford, Conn. died of leukemia on Feb. 7, 1992. She was 28.

She had lived in Glastonbury, Conn. before moving to West Hartford in 1981. She graduated from Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford before attending Trinity where she was a member of the Dance Club and the International Association of Students in Economics and Business Management. She received her B.A. degree in 1985.

She leaves her parents, Michael George and Bess Economos; a sister and brother-in-law, Maria and Ian Bradley; and a brother, George Michael

Economos, all of West Hartford; and her grandmother.

MASTER'S MARY C. A. VULCANO, M.A. 1936 Mary C. A. Vulcano of Hartford died on Jan. 19, 1992. She was 95.

Born in Brewster, N.Y., she graduated from Smith College in 1917 where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

She received her M.A. degree from Trinity in 1936.

Upon graduation from college, she worked in the New York City office of the Italian ministry of food before turning to teaching in 1921.

She had taught languages at Hartford Public High School for 25 years, retiring in 1956. After retirement she taught at St. Joseph College and Middlebury College. A recipient of the Fulbright Teacher Exchange, she was a member of various retired teacher associations, St. Lawrence O'Toole Church in Hartford and the Rosary Altar Society of that church.

Among her survivors are several nieces and nephews , including Arcangela Claffey, of West Hartford, and John Zazzaro, of Wethersfield, Conn.

CONSTANCE VIRGINIA CARRIER, M.A. 1942 Constance V. Carrier of New Britain, Conn. died on Dec. 7, 1991. She was 83.

A lifelong New Britain resident, she graduated from New Britain High School before attending Smith College where she received her bachelor's degree in 1929. In 1940 she received her M.A. degree from Trinity.

Upon graduation she began a 40year teaching career at New Britain High School, including a five-year stint at Hall High School in West Hartford, Conn. She retired in 1969. Her teaching fields were English, French and Latin.

In addition to her teaching, she was well known in the classics field as a poet and classicist. Two books of her translations have been published and other translations have been included in anthologies . Her own poetry has been widely published in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and in other collections of poetry. Two volumes of her own works, The Middle Voice and The Angled Road earned critical acclaim and she won the Lamont Poetry Award in 1954 for The Middle Voice .

As a result of her work, she was honored with fellowships at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N .H . and Yaddo at Saratoga Springs, N .Y. She was named laureate at St. Joseph College. She conducted summer workshops at Wesleyan University and Tufts University.

She was a member of several writers' conferences and a founder of the local Writers Group.

Her latest works include a collaboration with Dorothy MacLaren on Latin text of Aesop's Fables and a chapbook of her own poetry on the Salem witchcraft trials.

Surviving are her family ,

Waldemar L. and Barbara Carrier Block, of Newington, Conn.; Tracy Block Parkinson, Timothy Leebrick Parkinson and Cory Carrier Parkinson, ofManchester, Conn.; Thomas Carrier Block and Dorothy L . Poole, of Somerville, Mass.

MARGARET MARY SULLIVAN, M.A. 1952 Margaret M. SulEvan of Hartford, Conn. died on Dec. 8, 1991. She was 80.

Born in Hartford, she received her B.S. degree from St. Joseph College in 1941 and her M.A. degree from Trinity in 1952. She subsequently studied at Harvard University.

For many years she taught at the Arsenal and West Middle schools in Hartford, retiring in 1967.

She is survived by a cousin, Thomas Grady, of Somers, Conn.

RUDOLPH CHARLES KREMPL, M.A. 1967 Rudolph C. Krempl of Hartford, Conn. died on Dec. 21, 1991.

Born in Czechoslovakia, he received his M.A. degree from Trinity in 1967 and his Ph.D. degree in Germany.

For several years, he taught in the language progarm at Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault, Minn. After coming to Connecticut, he was a substitute teacher at Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor,Conn. andatNorthwest Catholic High School in West Hartford, Conn. Prior to his retirement, he was a language teacher at East Catholic High School in Manchester, Conn. for over 15 years. He taught French, German and Russian.

He was a communicant of St. Augustine Church.

He leaves his wife, Anna Gulwicz Krempl, of Hartford.

HONORARIUS EDWARD ALLEN SUISMAN, HON. 1971 Edward A. Suisman ofWestHartford, Conn. died on Dec. 14, 1991. He was 89.

Born in Hartford , Conn., he graduated from Yale College in 1925 and was awarded the honorary LL.D. degree from Triniy in 1971.

He and his brother were partners in Suisman and Blumenthal, Inc., now Aerospace Metals Inc., a scrap metal company which was founded by their father in 1899. Today the company has developed into one of the world's leading processors ofaerospace metal scrap.

A generous contributor to a wide range of philanthropic causes, he was especially interested in giving to and leading fund-raising efforts for Hartford's Jewish community, as well as many non-sectarian hospitals, schools and colleges. He and his late brother, Samuel, started the Suisman Foundation through which many of these causes were supported.

He leaves his wife, Etta Weiner Suisman, ofWestHartford; three sons, Michael, Richard and John, of West Hartford; three sisters; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

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